# Garden's Point Ruby.NET compiler 0.8 beta released

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**Created:** [June 13, 2007, 1:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gardens-point-ruby-net-compiler-0-8-beta-released/106701 "2007-06-13T13:32:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 13, 2007, 1:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gardens-point-ruby-net-compiler-0-8-beta-released/106701/1 "2007-06-13T13:32:50Z")

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Hi All

Since I see no mention of this on the list, below is the announcement I  
received from Dr. Wayne K…  
This version includes an Interop prototype, so you can compile a Ruby  
program to a DLL, include that  
DLL in a C# program, and use the classes!

The link to the website below has some screen shots which were enough  
for me  
to figure out how to use  
the Interop, with these additional steps:

1. I needed to compile the Ruby program on the command line like so:  
D:\RubyIntegration\Person\>“C:\Program Files\Ruby.NET\bin\rubycompiler”  
/target:library Person.rb

2. I needed to include the resulting Person.dll into the C# project.

3. I needed to include the QUT.RubyRuntime dll in the C# project too,  
and  
it’s installed in a strange location:  
C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC\_MSIL\QUT.RubyRuntime\0.8.0.0\_\_834595ca8023c318\QUT.RubyRuntime.dll

Les

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We are pleased to announce the release of a new Beta (version 0.8) of  
the  
Gardens Point [Ruby.NET](http://Ruby.NET) compiler. Since the last release we have added  
support for interoperability with other .NET languages, so that  
components  
developed using other .NET languages can conveniently use classes  
implemented using [Ruby.NET](http://Ruby.NET) and vice versa. Please see our home page:

[http://plas2003.fit.qut.edu.au/Ruby.NET/](http://plas2003.fit.qut.edu.au/Ruby.NET/)

to download installers, full source code or for further details.

This first prototype has a number of limitations with respect to  
interoperability, including:

1. Ruby programs can only call methods implemented in other  
languages where the parameters are passed by value  
(ie, we don’t yet support calling methods that include  
ref or out parameters).

2. Non-Ruby programs can only conveniently make use of Ruby  
classes that have no explicit parent class (ie we don’t  
yet support interop if the Ruby class inherits from  
something other than Object).

We will address these and other interoperability issues in our next  
release  
and hope to demonstrate development of Forms applications using [Ruby.NET](http://Ruby.NET)  
in  
our next release.

Our work on porting Ruby on Rails is progressing well, but is not yet  
ready  
for public release.

We still haven’t yet performed any optimization on the code we generate.

We will soon be moving to a more traditional open source model of  
community  
contribution to our code base and will be calling for volunteer  
developers.  
If anyone has any experience in managing that kind of process, we’d be  
interested in your input.

You are also welcome to submit bug reports to removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid -  
please  
submit a minimal self-contained Ruby snippet that illustrates the bug.

Cheers, Wayne.

(for the [Ruby.NET](http://Ruby.NET) team)

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Dr Wayne K. Senior Lecturer  
Email: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid School of Software Engineering and DC  
Phone: +61 7 3864 9336 Faculty of Information Technology  
Fax: +61 7 3864 9390 Queensland University of Technology