Write-up of the IronRuby R.Conf 2009 talk:
http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2009/05/ironruby-at-railsconf-2009.html
Hightlights:
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IronRuby runs real Rails applications:
o Along with other Ruby web frameworks:
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Using ActiveRecord outside of Rails is useful for simple
database interaction (migrations, for example), and in WinForms
databinding with ActiveRecord.
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New project to enable deploying Rack-based applications on
IIS with IronRuby:
http://github.com/jschementi/ironruby/tree/master/Merlin/Main/Hosts/IronRuby.Rack
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Direct integration with ASP.NET through ironruby-mvc:
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Special thanks to contributors and starting projects based on
IronRuby: http://github.com/ironruby/ironruby-contrib
o More information on contributing to IronRuby:
http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/contributing
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Project statics on http://ironruby.info: 84% RubySpec
pass-rate.
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Startup performance has also been a focus of improvement as
of late, and by building an adaptive interpreter/compiler (like
IronPython now has) Rails startup time decreased from about 85 to 30
seconds (2.8x improvement), without sacrifice for throughput
performance!
~Jimmy