# IronRuby 1.0 Alpha 2

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-1-0-alpha-2/153666>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [November 19, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-1-0-alpha-2/153666 "2008-11-19T23:28:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-1-0-alpha-2/153666/1 "2008-11-19T23:28:49Z")

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Announcing the release of IronRuby 1.0 Alpha 2. You can download it on  
RubyForge ([http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=4359](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=4359)), I will have a tag  
in SVN soon. Notable features: the inclusion of iirb.bat, igem.bat,  
irails.bat, irake.bat! This is our first standalone release. Two  
caveats: If you want caller to work correctly, use -X:Interpret. If you  
want Rubygems to work, ensure that all of your sources end with a /. You  
can check in ~/.gemrc.

Enjoy!

```auto
JD
http://blog.jredville.com
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**Author:** ![raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-1-0-alpha-2/153666/2 "2008-11-20T01:31:14Z")

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Excellent work guys!! Congratulations! I know this is a big step for  
you.

However, I extracted IronRuby onto my desktop (E:\Users\Ben  
Hall\Desktop\ironruby1a2\ironruby). Installed a gem and it ended up  
outside of my ironruby directory ☹

E:\Users\Ben  
Hall\Desktop\External\languages\ruby\ruby-1.8.6\lib\ironruby\gems\1.8\gems

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**Author:** ![raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-1-0-alpha-2/153666/3 "2008-11-20T01:43:31Z")

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That sounds like you’re getting our internal version of TOPDIR (defined  
in rbconfig.rb). There’s supposed to be a transform to this file when  
we export it; it sounds like that transform didn’t work. You should be  
able to edit rbconfig.rb manually.

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**Author:** ![raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-1-0-alpha-2/153666/4 "2008-11-20T02:01:38Z")

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Source for this release has been tagged at  
[http://ironruby.rubyforge.org/svn/tags/ironruby\_10\_alpha\_2/](http://ironruby.rubyforge.org/svn/tags/ironruby_10_alpha_2/).

JD