# IronRuby

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## [More spec review](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/more-spec-review/142771)

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**Author:** [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 11, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/more-spec-review/142771 "2008-07-11T23:35:14Z")

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I’ve commited some more stuff to my Rubyspec fork, I’d like to get some reviews before I merge them to Johns. The commit numbers are: 123084 fb9a920 b7d69ef ddbab38 a2a3c4b cc48d366 That’s the last 6 commits I’ve…

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## [Code Review: StringGsubVersion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-review-stringgsubversion/142755)

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**Author:** [@Dave\_Remy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dave_Remy)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 11, 2008, 4:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-review-stringgsubversion/142755 "2008-07-11T04:01:53Z")

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tfpt review “/shelveset:StringGsubVersion;REDMOND\\dremy” Comment : This change fixes all of the gsub, each, and each\_line specs. Added aditional tests to gsub spec. The excluded gsub tests are only failing on unim…

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## [Code Review: BlockDispatch7](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-review-blockdispatch7/142659)

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**Author:** [@grujildo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/grujildo)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 10, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-review-blockdispatch7/142659 "2008-07-10T23:43:14Z")

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tfpt review “/shelveset:BlockDispatch7;REDMOND\\tomat” Improves dispatch to blocks. Previously, DynamicSites were used to adapt call site’s arguments to the signature of the target block. In block invocation no resolut…

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## [RubySpec changes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyspec-changes/142629)

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**Author:** [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 10, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyspec-changes/142629 "2008-07-10T23:25:04Z")

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I’m syncing up the copy of Rubyspec in TFS/SVN with the copy in Git. I’d like to get a code review of the changes. Eventually this will be automated, but for now, I’m attaching them directly. Question: Does the attach…

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## [Rails for Asp.Net developers, 3 chapters to download](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-for-asp-net-developers-3-chapters-to-download/142694)

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**Author:** [@webreservoir](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/webreservoir)\
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**Last updated:** [July 10, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-for-asp-net-developers-3-chapters-to-download/142694 "2008-07-10T13:19:48Z")

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Hi, This is just for Information. Rails for .Net Developers, is a new Book coming in November 2008. You can down load 3 chapters for free here… http://rubyindia.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/rails-for-aspnet-developers-re…

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## [WPF philosophy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wpf-philosophy/142660)

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**Author:** [@barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/barby)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 10, 2008, 11:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wpf-philosophy/142660 "2008-07-10T11:26:51Z")

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Hi I don’t really know if this is an appropriate discussion but here it goes. Ruby and Xaml at first sight a DSL is very appropriate to get rid of the xml syntax. I’m all for that :slight\_smile: However the price yo…

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## [FW: MindTouch Wik.is Upgrade](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fw-mindtouch-wik-is-upgrade/142544)

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**Author:** [@John\_LSSIRONRUBY](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_LSSIRONRUBY)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 10, 2008, 8:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fw-mindtouch-wik-is-upgrade/142544 "2008-07-10T08:18:33Z")

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FYI Thanks, -John From: MindTouch \[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid\] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 2:32 PM To: John L. (IRONRUBY) Subject: MindTouch Wik.is Upgrade \[https://na3.salesforce.com/servlet/ser…

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## [Code Review: StringGsubEach](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-review-stringgsubeach/142447)

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**Author:** [@Dave\_Remy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dave_Remy)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-review-stringgsubeach/142447 "2008-07-09T19:19:47Z")

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tfpt review “/shelveset:StringGsubEach;REDMOND\\dremy” Comment : Changes to for string.gsub and string.each (and each\_line) to run clean. The most significant change is to track version in MutableString. This versi…

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## [Any Plans for a StarterKit in IronRuby on CodePlex](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-plans-for-a-starterkit-in-ironruby-on-codeplex/128391)

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**Author:** [@softmind](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/softmind)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-plans-for-a-starterkit-in-ironruby-on-codeplex/128391 "2008-07-09T14:05:54Z")

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Hello, I am just curious to know about the plans to make IronRuby more reachable and just to inquire, whether there is any projects already announced on StarterKits in IronRuby. I think, converting an existing asp.ne…

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## [Code Review: fixes-2](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-review-fixes-2/142556)

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**Author:** [@John\_LSSIRONRUBY](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_LSSIRONRUBY)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2008, 7:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-review-fixes-2/142556 "2008-07-09T07:43:13Z")

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Ruby only. All local tests pass. tfpt review “/shelveset:fixes-2;REDMOND\\jflam” Comment : Added a ChildProcessExitStatus global variable ($?) which contains the exit code of a sub-process (used by system, backt…

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## [Re: Mono build update](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-mono-build-update/142526)

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**Author:** [@jirapong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jirapong)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 8, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-mono-build-update/142526 "2008-07-08T21:58:25Z")

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Hi, do you build on Mac? the UserProfile is where your home directory. you might try, before compile USERPROFILE=\[your home dir\] export USERPROFILE Hope this help, -Jirapong On Jul 8, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Unnikrishn…

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## [Sylvester the IronRuby twitter client](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sylvester-the-ironruby-twitter-client/141559)

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**Author:** [@barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/barby)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [July 8, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sylvester-the-ironruby-twitter-client/141559 "2008-07-08T18:47:05Z")

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Hi all, I rewrote witty or at least I re-used witty’s xaml to write an IronRuby twitter client. However I have a fair bit of workarounds in C#. I was wondering if I could get somebody from the list to take a look and …

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## [Newbie questions](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-questions/142464)

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**Author:** [@raycher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raycher)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 8, 2008, 10:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-questions/142464 "2008-07-08T10:55:42Z")

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Hi, Just some newbie questions: I have seen quite a few tftp shelvesets coming by in the mailing list. Is this shelvesets in TFS server, is that publicly available or is this only for the core team? At what times …

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## [Code Review: MoreYamlStuff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-review-moreyamlstuff/142446)

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**Author:** [@Oleg\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Oleg_T)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 8, 2008, 8:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-review-moreyamlstuff/142446 "2008-07-08T08:00:25Z")

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tfpt review “/shelveset:MoreYamlStuff;REDMOND\\olegtk” Comment : Implements taguri() for regexps and structs. Moves accessor for code context to IConstructor level so all static constructors receiving IConstructor ca…

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## [Mono build update](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mono-build-update/142459)

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**Author:** [@ksunair](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ksunair)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 8, 2008, 7:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mono-build-update/142459 "2008-07-08T07:22:23Z")

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Finally I got mono to build successfully.I checkout 121 from rubyforge and tried to do rake compile and, it failed on the following line; path\_to\_config = ENV\[‘USERPROFILE’\] + ‘/.irconfig.rb’ I remember seeing some ma…

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## [Mspec breaking change](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mspec-breaking-change/142415)

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**Author:** [@John\_LSSIRONRUBY](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_LSSIRONRUBY)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [July 7, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mspec-breaking-change/142415 "2008-07-07T22:53:48Z")

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The mspec team checked in a change on June 30 that broke all of our RubySpec tests. The -X option has been removed which is the option that lets us tell the specs where the tags directory is. I’ve spent the morning fi…

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## [Ruby as a standard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-as-a-standard/142417)

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**Author:** [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 7, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-as-a-standard/142417 "2008-07-07T20:24:37Z")

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“Matz plans to hand in the standard to the ISO (International Organization for Standardization), however, a concrete date has not yet been determined-only that it will “at least take a couple of years for standardiz…

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## [Spec changes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/spec-changes/142347)

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**Author:** [@ksunair](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ksunair)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [July 7, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/spec-changes/142347 "2008-07-07T20:06:29Z")

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I think the following spec is wrong for FileOps.dirname Â It is Â Â Â Â File.dirname(’/////’).should == ‘/’ Â but it should be Â Â Â Â File.dirname(’/////’).should == ‘//’ Â If it is my misunderstanding, plea…

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## [Memory Leak with Certain Script Exceptions](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/memory-leak-with-certain-script-exceptions/142289)

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**Author:** [@acampos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/acampos)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 7, 2008, 10:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/memory-leak-with-certain-script-exceptions/142289 "2008-07-07T10:23:13Z")

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Hi, I use the IronRuby scripting engine in a long running server process and came across an issue where the memory utilisation of the process started steadily rising in line with a memory leak. The server process is …

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## [Re: spec question](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-spec-question/142299)

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**Author:** [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 7, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-spec-question/142299 "2008-07-07T00:15:56Z")

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I’d say yes. You can commit to your local repository and use “git format-patch -1” to make the patches. Change the number to match the number of commits you have made. In addition, remember that rake spec runs the tes…

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## [Rand() needs a seed?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rand-needs-a-seed/142307)

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**Author:** [@Johan\_Danforth](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Johan_Danforth)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 7, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rand-needs-a-seed/142307 "2008-07-07T00:03:04Z")

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I’m a noob Ruby user, but IronRuby behaves different from other Ruby implementations that I’ve tried, in IronRuby (rev 121) this code: 100.times {p rand(100)} Often returns the same value for (almost) all iterations, …

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## [Re: spec question](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-spec-question/142280)

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**Author:** [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 6, 2008, 8:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-spec-question/142280 "2008-07-06T08:07:41Z")

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You should be fine making a patch. As for the test, it shouldn’t run that test on Windows, but I’m not sure how the old runner works. JD

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## [Spec question](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/spec-question/142254)

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**Author:** [@ksunair](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ksunair)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 5, 2008, 10:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/spec-question/142254 "2008-07-05T10:22:55Z")

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When I was testing the File.zero? I noticed File.zero?(‘NUL’) failed. I looked the code and it seems there is no special check there to exclude NUL as a not a valid file. I created a constant Â Â Â Â Â Â Â private re…

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## [eRubyCon 2008](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/erubycon-2008/142242)

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**Author:** [@dreamwave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dreamwave)\
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**Last updated:** [July 5, 2008, 5:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/erubycon-2008/142242 "2008-07-05T05:02:25Z")

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Just wanted to make a quick plug for http://www.erubycon.com/ coming up the middle of August in Columbus, OH. It’s a conference on using Ruby in the Enterprise (which I think IronRuby is well situated to be a major …

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## [Re: Rake Regression](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-rake-regression/142227)

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**Author:** [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\
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**Last updated:** [July 4, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-rake-regression/142227 "2008-07-04T20:45:37Z")

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What version of the git repos is this? I did some fixes last night that should fix some of the failures.

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## [Rake Regression](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-regression/142229)

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**Author:** [@editkid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/editkid)\
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**Last updated:** [July 4, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-regression/142229 "2008-07-04T20:08:41Z")

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Is the regression supposed to pass with 100%? I get 1 fail and 20 errors (r121): D:\\dev\\ruby\\ironruby\\head\>rake regression (in D:/dev/ruby/ironruby/head) array: 71 files, 485 examples, 1592 expectations, 0 failures…

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## [HOME and USERPROFILE aliasing under Windows](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/home-and-userprofile-aliasing-under-windows/141954)

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**Author:** [@John\_LSSIRONRUBY](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_LSSIRONRUBY)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [July 3, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/home-and-userprofile-aliasing-under-windows/141954 "2008-07-03T21:00:41Z")

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MRI currently expects the HOME environment variable to be set under Windows. Various operations involving ~ and Dir will fail if HOME is not defined. However, HOME is rarely defined under Windows by default. Instead …

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## [Code Review: YamlRegex](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-review-yamlregex/141963)

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**Author:** [@Oleg\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Oleg_T)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 3, 2008, 7:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-review-yamlregex/141963 "2008-07-03T07:28:44Z")

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tfpt review “/shelveset:YamlRegex;REDMOND\\olegtk” Comment : Fixes Ruby Regex support: implements RubyRegex.taguri() and loading regex from yaml. Implements loading literal Ruby ranges. Adds couple useful RubyUtils.…

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## [Code Review: StringGsubWithPattern](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-review-stringgsubwithpattern/141962)

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**Author:** [@Dave\_Remy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dave_Remy)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 2, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-review-stringgsubwithpattern/141962 "2008-07-02T02:58:41Z")

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tfpt review “/shelveset:StringGsubWithPattern;REDMOND\\dremy” Comment : Changes for string.gsub with pattern ruby specs to pass. The following tests now pass: String#gsub with pattern, replacement replaces & and \\0 …

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## [Is it possible to build RubyGems with IronRuby?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-it-possible-to-build-rubygems-with-ironruby/141956)

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**Author:** [@ryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ryan)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 2, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-it-possible-to-build-rubygems-with-ironruby/141956 "2008-07-02T01:25:05Z")

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I have been trying to build RubyGems with IronRuby with the latest sources over the past week, and it’s getting better each time, but not quite there. Has anyone else been trying this or been successful in building …

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