# Rails on .NET

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-net/100945>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 2, 2006, 1:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-net/100945 "2006-08-02T01:51:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![nathandelane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/df705f/32.png) [@nathandelane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nathandelane)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 1:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-net/100945/1 "2006-08-02T01:51:16Z")

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[http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1996960,00.asp?kc=EWEAUEMNL080106EOAD](http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1996960,00.asp?kc=EWEAUEMNL080106EOAD)

Just saw this and thought it was interesting…

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**Author:** ![nathandelane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/df705f/32.png) [@nathandelane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nathandelane)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 11:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-net/100945/2 "2006-08-03T11:59:51Z")

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It does sound interesting although they are working on 1.8.2.

AEM

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**Author:** ![nathandelane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/df705f/32.png) [@nathandelane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nathandelane)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 12:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-net/100945/3 "2006-08-03T12:28:05Z")

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Sounds like a very interesting academic research project. I don’t think  
it’s  
feasable though in the real world… I don’t see Microsoft pushing this  
over  
C# or [VB.Net](http://VB.Net)… and most Ruby devs I know wouldn’t touch .Net.

It’s still cool though.

It would be more interesting if they could make Ruby run faster under  
Windows 🙂

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**Author:** ![nathandelane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/df705f/32.png) [@nathandelane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nathandelane)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-net/100945/4 "2006-08-03T12:46:01Z")

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David Simmons, Smalltalker and dynamic language speed guru\*, was  
recently interviewed in Bitwise magazine, where he talked a little  
about the challenges of putting dynamic languages on the CLR:

[http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/S-Smalltalk-The-Next-Generation](http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/S-Smalltalk-The-Next-Generation)

He also talks a little about Ruby and complexity.

-faisal  
-\* and, in my case, friend and former boss. which is not to say i  
always agree with him, but hey, disclosure.

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**Author:** ![nathandelane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/df705f/32.png) [@nathandelane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nathandelane)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-net/100945/5 "2006-08-08T15:28:48Z")

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Nathan L. wrote:

> [http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1996960,00.asp?kc=EWEAUEMNL080106EOAD](http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1996960,00.asp?kc=EWEAUEMNL080106EOAD)
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> Just saw this and thought it was interesting…

1. Embrace
2. Extend
3. Extinquish

Same old Microsoft as ever.

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**Author:** ![nathandelane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/df705f/32.png) [@nathandelane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nathandelane)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 2:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-net/100945/6 "2006-08-08T14:28:19Z")

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Brian H. wrote:

> Sounds like a very interesting academic research project. I don’t think  
> it’s  
> feasable though in the real world… I don’t see Microsoft pushing this  
> over  
> C# or [VB.Net](http://VB.Net)… and most Ruby devs I know wouldn’t touch .Net.

It’s certainly worth “touching .NET” if it means you get access to the  
Windows Forms APIs and to automatically access other C#.NET and [VB.NET](http://VB.NET)  
code via the CLR. Even if this subset of classes were unmodifiable in a  
meta-programming sense, it would be great to be able to do so.

Nic