# IronRuby on rails - A comment posted on Rob Connery's Blog **URL:** \ **Category:** IronRuby\ **Created:** [December 26, 2007, 4:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-on-rails-a-comment-posted-on-rob-connerys-blog/124173 "2007-12-26T04:58:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![myreply](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c67d28/32.png) [@myreply](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/myreply)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 4:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-on-rails-a-comment-posted-on-rob-connerys-blog/124173/1 "2007-12-26T04:58:38Z")
Hi, I just found this comment on " Rob Conery’s " Blog about SubSonic and the future of MVC . I am pasting as it is. * * * Hi Rob, Very good informative blog indeed. I am curious to know one step ahead, since after few months DLR would be the preferred way for other dynamic languages to enter .net world. As per John L., the person behind IronRuby… He says…" My mission would not be complete, if i cannot run Ruby on rails with Iron Ruby ". I want to make Ruby as Class 1 language for DLR. Ok great move by MS for porting all other good languages to DLR. But the question that arises is… " How will IronRuby run Ruby on rails on DLR without Active Record….? (1) Will they develop new Active Record type tool that runs only on DLR. (2) Will they utilize SubSonic in a different way, that runs as totally Active Record Solution for DLR. (3) Ruby On Rails is also an MVC… Will IronRuby create a different Ruby on rails MVC for DLR. that supports SubSonic… OK… it sounds to early now… But worth thinking whats going to happen in future. SilverLight 2.0 is based on DLR and arrives almost in March 2008, so my question is only 3 months ahead not very far… Hope i am able to clarify few things. ## Thanks The answer from Rob is here… @Paraag: Rails is simply a stack that runs on Rubyw.exe - in other words a bunch of scripted commands that live in a directory. The thing here is that the Rails app is handled (as of now) by Rubyw.exe (through CGI). The thing Jon is making is (essentially) a replacement for Rubyw.exe - so in essence a Rails app should be “droppable” onto the DLR. Now I’ve never played with IronRuby - this is just what I’m guessing at. If I’m wrong - someone out there lemme know cause my whole thought here is you can still do Rails - just execute it (5 times faster) using the DLR. * * * Hi John, Per haps you can focus more on this. Here’s the original thread… [http://blog.wekeroad.com/2007/12/14/aspnet-mvc-choosing-your-data-access-method/#comments](http://blog.wekeroad.com/2007/12/14/aspnet-mvc-choosing-your-data-access-method/#comments) Thanks ---
**Author:** ![myreply](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c67d28/32.png) [@myreply](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/myreply)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 2:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-on-rails-a-comment-posted-on-rob-connerys-blog/124173/2 "2007-12-28T02:38:56Z")
myreply wrote: > Hi, > > I just found this comment on " Rob Conery’s " Blog about SubSonic and > the > future of MVC . I am pasting as it is. SubSonic is really cool. I had watch the screen cast and it is really interesting. Rob done a good job on integrating the SubSonic into VS IDE. It is a rail like development but with c# and subsonic on VS and ASP. ---
**Author:** ![myreply](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c67d28/32.png) [@myreply](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/myreply)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 3:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-on-rails-a-comment-posted-on-rob-connerys-blog/124173/3 "2007-12-28T03:43:11Z")
myreply wrote: > But the question that arises is… " How will IronRuby run Ruby on rails > on DLR without Active Record….? Why wouldn’t you have ActiveRecord? ActiveRecord is 100% Ruby, and even the adapters for specific databases usually have a pure Ruby version. Beyond that, it wouldn’t be hard to wire them into .NET’s usual database connectors. - Charlie