# Contributing to IronRuby on \*nix **URL:** \ **Category:** IronRuby\ **Created:** [January 26, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/contributing-to-ironruby-on-nix/182340 "2010-01-26T19:07:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CSKSPonnappa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@CSKSPonnappa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CSKSPonnappa)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/contributing-to-ironruby-on-nix/182340/1 "2010-01-26T19:07:56Z")
Hello everyone, Recently I’ve been trying develop a gem with native extensions in C, Java and C# just to learn what’s involved. When working with IronRuby, I ran into a few small issues so I figured I’d learn how to build and modify IronRuby source so I can take a shot at fixing these issues and contribute _something_ to the project, if possible. Now, when working with IronRuby I’m having a pretty hard time in both cases because I’m not on Windows. For now I’m on OSX, and when I return this oh-so-awesome-but-hugely-expensive laptop to my employers, I’ll be developing on Linux. Can you help me or give me any advice on how I can get started fixing bugs on IronRuby when developing on Mono? Is there a guide somewhere already on how to get a dev environment up on Mono using Emacs/TextMate/MonoDevelop? Cheers, Sidu. > **[Electric Sheep Blog](http://blog.sidu.in)** > > On hacking and startups by Sidu Ponnappa [http://twitter.com/ponnappa](http://twitter.com/ponnappa) ---
**Author:** ![CSKSPonnappa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@CSKSPonnappa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CSKSPonnappa)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/contributing-to-ironruby-on-nix/182340/2 "2010-01-26T23:13:58Z")
no guide so far. To work and browse the IronRuby source I’ve been using monodevelop. For ruby dev I’ve been using textmate on mac, gmate (plugin for gedit) on ubuntu and notepad++ on windows, as well as Rubymine on all platforms but that doesn’t feel completely right. With monodevelop you can open the IronRuby solution as is and start hacking. there should be a dev.sh file which should set the right environment variables and aliases when you source it. I know the ironruby team did work to make ironruby work properly on mono a while ago. * * * Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations Ivan Porto C. Blog: [http://flanders.co.nz](http://flanders.co.nz) Twitter: [http://twitter.com/casualjim](http://twitter.com/casualjim) Author of IronRuby in Action ([http://manning.com/carrero](http://manning.com/carrero)) ---
**Author:** ![CSKSPonnappa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@CSKSPonnappa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CSKSPonnappa)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 11:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/contributing-to-ironruby-on-nix/182340/3 "2010-01-26T23:19:51Z")
FWIW [http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/](http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/) has general developer info. Please add to it if you can. Tomas made it easy to develop against Mono on Windows. See attached. From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Ivan Porto Carrero Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:58 AM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Contributing to IronRuby on \*nix no guide so far. To work and browse the IronRuby source I’ve been using monodevelop. For ruby dev I’ve been using textmate on mac, gmate (plugin for gedit) on ubuntu and notepad++ on windows, as well as Rubymine on all platforms but that doesn’t feel completely right. With monodevelop you can open the IronRuby solution as is and start hacking. there should be a dev.sh file which should set the right environment variables and aliases when you source it. I know the ironruby team did work to make ironruby work properly on mono a while ago. * * * Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations Ivan Porto C. Blog: [http://flanders.co.nz](http://flanders.co.nz) Twitter: [http://twitter.com/casualjim](http://twitter.com/casualjim) Author of IronRuby in Action ([http://manning.com/carrero](http://manning.com/carrero)) On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:08 PM, C. K. Ponnappa \ wrote: Hello everyone, Recently I’ve been trying develop a gem with native extensions in C, Java and C# just to learn what’s involved. When working with IronRuby, I ran into a few small issues so I figured I’d learn how to build and modify IronRuby source so I can take a shot at fixing these issues and contribute _something_ to the project, if possible. Now, when working with IronRuby I’m having a pretty hard time in both cases because I’m not on Windows. For now I’m on OSX, and when I return this oh-so-awesome-but-hugely-expensive laptop to my employers, I’ll be developing on Linux. Can you help me or give me any advice on how I can get started fixing bugs on IronRuby when developing on Mono? Is there a guide somewhere already on how to get a dev environment up on Mono using Emacs/TextMate/MonoDevelop? Cheers, Sidu. > **[Electric Sheep Blog](http://blog.sidu.in)** > > On hacking and startups by Sidu Ponnappa [http://twitter.com/ponnappa](http://twitter.com/ponnappa) * * * Ironruby-core mailing list removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core](http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core) ---
**Author:** ![CSKSPonnappa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@CSKSPonnappa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CSKSPonnappa)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/contributing-to-ironruby-on-nix/182340/4 "2010-01-27T00:24:16Z")
Ok. In that case you can find a dev.sh and alias.sh in the following links [http://github.com/casualjim/ironruby/blob/linux/Merlin/Main/Languages/Ruby/Scripts/dev.sh](http://github.com/casualjim/ironruby/blob/linux/Merlin/Main/Languages/Ruby/Scripts/dev.sh) [http://github.com/casualjim/ironruby/blob/linux/Merlin/Main/Scripts/Bat/Alias.sh](http://github.com/casualjim/ironruby/blob/linux/Merlin/Main/Scripts/Bat/Alias.sh) * * * Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations Ivan Porto C. Blog: [http://flanders.co.nz](http://flanders.co.nz) Twitter: [http://twitter.com/casualjim](http://twitter.com/casualjim) Author of IronRuby in Action ([http://manning.com/carrero](http://manning.com/carrero)) ---
**Author:** ![CSKSPonnappa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@CSKSPonnappa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CSKSPonnappa)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 9:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/contributing-to-ironruby-on-nix/182340/5 "2010-01-27T09:53:08Z")
Fair enough - I’ll try to get an environment going and document it along the way (and put it onto the github wiki should I succeed). Thanks for the tips. Cheers, Sidu.