# Re: r132 - can you check if it builds correctly on mono? **URL:** \ **Category:** IronRuby\ **Created:** [August 16, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-r132-can-you-check-if-it-builds-correctly-on-mono/146050 "2008-08-16T20:25:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-r132-can-you-check-if-it-builds-correctly-on-mono/146050/1 "2008-08-16T20:25:04Z")
I was just trying to think of something that wouldn’t get messed up again. ---
**Author:** ![raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-r132-can-you-check-if-it-builds-correctly-on-mono/146050/2 "2008-08-16T20:44:57Z")
I was up till 4am last night at eRubyCon, and this is just me thinking outloud… I’ve had it in my mind to write a msbuild plugin for Rake, instead of maintaining the csproj files directly, how about maintaining them in rake files that can generate csproj files on demand? That way we’re not beholden to VS strong armness? Just a random crazy thought. ---
**Author:** ![raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-r132-can-you-check-if-it-builds-correctly-on-mono/146050/3 "2008-08-16T21:47:38Z")
You could yes, my assumption would be that pregenerated csproj + sln files would be there already though for people that don’t have a ruby installation already. ---
**Author:** ![raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-r132-can-you-check-if-it-builds-correctly-on-mono/146050/4 "2008-08-16T21:39:26Z")
Just so I understand, if I wanted to load the files in Visual Studio, I would run a rake file which would generate me the csproj + sln and launch VS? On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Michael L. ---
**Author:** ![raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-r132-can-you-check-if-it-builds-correctly-on-mono/146050/5 "2008-08-16T21:48:48Z")
That’s the way I hoped it would work after clicking send 😉 On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Michael L. ---
**Author:** ![raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 4:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-r132-can-you-check-if-it-builds-correctly-on-mono/146050/6 "2008-08-18T16:04:16Z")
Ben H.: > Just so I understand, if I wanted to load the files in Visual Studio, I > would run a rake file which would generate me the csproj + sln and > launch VS? Nope. The files in the distribution have the correct layout. The Rakefile is only used by us to transform our internal dir layout into the external-facing one. Thanks, -John ---
**Author:** ![raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-r132-can-you-check-if-it-builds-correctly-on-mono/146050/7 "2008-08-18T16:10:44Z")
Michael L.: > I was up till 4am last night at eRubyCon, and this is just me thinking > outloud… > > I’ve had it in my mind to write a msbuild plugin for Rake, instead of > maintaining the csproj files directly, how about maintaining them in > rake files that can generate csproj files on demand? That way we’re > not beholden to VS strong armness? > > Just a random crazy thought. I don’t think this would really work in practice, since files are added by folks who use the IDE all the time. Thanks, -John ---
**Author:** ![raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@raker\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/raker_t)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-r132-can-you-check-if-it-builds-correctly-on-mono/146050/8 "2008-08-18T16:30:41Z")
The assumption would be that the project layouts don’t change that often, certainly less often the the cs files which is what is really being maintained in the IDE most of the time. On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:04 AM, John L. (IRONRUBY)