# IronRuby scripting in Windows Store apps

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-scripting-in-windows-store-apps/222342>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [August 27, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-scripting-in-windows-store-apps/222342 "2012-08-27T14:00:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aris)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-scripting-in-windows-store-apps/222342/1 "2012-08-27T14:00:20Z")

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(Seems like my previous email didn’t go thru, trying again)

I have just checked in a sample Windows 8 application that evaluates  
Ruby code and displays result.

> <https://github.com/IronLanguages/main/tree/master/Hosts/WindowsStore>
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> //github.com/IronLanguages/main/tree/master/Hosts/WindowsStore

Feel free to play with it. The basics should work but definitely expect  
bugs :). To try it out build Ruby.sln Win8 configuration:

main\Solutions\> msbuild Ruby.sln /p:Configuration=“Win8Debug”

Then open Hosts\WindowsStore\IronApp.sln, build and run.

The app is a regular C# Windows Store app that uses ScriptEngine to  
execute Ruby code against a ScriptScope containing a main variable,  
which is set to be the application MainPage UI element.

Tomas

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**Author:** ![grujildo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@grujildo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/grujildo)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-scripting-in-windows-store-apps/222342/2 "2012-08-27T14:01:26Z")

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**Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-scripting-in-windows-store-apps/222342/3 "2012-08-29T18:12:56Z")

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On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Curt H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> …as opposed to one of a set of predefined types whose source is compiled  
> into IronRuby.

Or any types precompiled ahead of time, which is what I’m working on  
now. I need it for Android anyway, but it looks like I’ll need it here  
too.

- Jeff