# Gestalt and IronRuby in the browser

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gestalt-and-ironruby-in-the-browser/198094>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [October 26, 2010, 11:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gestalt-and-ironruby-in-the-browser/198094 "2010-10-26T11:33:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dobai-Pataky\_BSSSSl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/77aa72/32.png) [@Dobai-Pataky\_BSSSSl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dobai-Pataky_BSSSSl)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 11:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gestalt-and-ironruby-in-the-browser/198094/1 "2010-10-26T11:33:27Z")

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Hi,

I’m wondering how Gestalt ([http://gestalt.codeplex.com/](http://gestalt.codeplex.com/)) fits into the  
transition of IronRuby from Microsoft to the community. Gestalt is the  
piece  
of technology that makes it easy to use IronRuby and IronPython (  
[http://ironpython.net/ironpython/browser/](http://ironpython.net/ironpython/browser/)) in the browser. You basically  
create simple tags and start using these  
languages directly in the browser.

In the 1.1.1 drop I saw an Silverlight build of the IronRuby assemblies,  
but  
I couldn’t find the gestalt infrastructure pieces. Are these part of the  
same repo as IronRuby, or are they hosted by a separate project  
(Gestalt?)  
Is this way of hosting Iron\* languages in Silverlight being deprecated?

- Jonas

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**Author:** ![SSJonas\_FollesSSSS\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@SSJonas\_FollesSSSS\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSJonas_FollesSSSS_S)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gestalt-and-ironruby-in-the-browser/198094/2 "2010-11-02T16:00:20Z")

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gestalt is an unrelated project to the “mainline” ironruby, but  
definitely cool 🙂