# IronRuby / Rails Question

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-rails-question/138161>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [May 20, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-rails-question/138161 "2008-05-20T18:05:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![jcain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@jcain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jcain)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-rails-question/138161/1 "2008-05-20T18:05:04Z")

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It looks like you’re getting very close to getting rails to run on  
IronRuby. What is the endgame for this? Is the goal to eventually be  
able to run a rails app on IIS, so deployment is just as simple as  
deploying an [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) web application? I’ve been looking at several  
different ways this could happen (especially if you can modify rails  
to take advantage of some windoes / .net specific features), but would  
like to get your thoughts on this.

Josh

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**Author:** ![jcain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@jcain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jcain)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 7:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-rails-question/138161/2 "2008-05-24T07:22:10Z")

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Josh C.:

> It looks like you’re getting very close to getting rails to run on  
> IronRuby. What is the endgame for this? Is the goal to eventually be  
> able to run a rails app on IIS, so deployment is just as simple as  
> deploying an [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) web application? I’ve been looking at several  
> different ways this could happen (especially if you can modify rails  
> to take advantage of some windoes / .net specific features), but would  
> like to get your thoughts on this.

I don’t think we’re near the end game yet 🙂 We’re barely able to run  
Rails functional tests now, and there’s a lot more library work to be  
done before we can start thinking about deployment etc. That said, this  
is something we would love to have folks in the community help us out  
with. Do you have any specific thoughts in mind?

Thanks,  
-John