# Ruby.NET vs. IronRuby: Overview Posted to O'ReilyNet/Windows DevCenter **URL:** \ **Category:** IronRuby\ **Created:** [January 2, 2008, 9:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-net-vs-ironruby-overview-posted-to-oreilynet-windows-devcenter/124759 "2008-01-02T09:48:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![micx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@micx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/micx)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 9:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-net-vs-ironruby-overview-posted-to-oreilynet-windows-devcenter/124759/1 "2008-01-02T09:48:13Z")
FYI… This post is _LONG_ overdue, but later is better than never. 😃 > **[O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training](https://www.oreilly.com)** > > Gain technology and business knowledge and hone your skills with learning resources created and curated by O'Reilly's experts: live online training, video, books, our platform has content from 200+ of the world's best publishers. Please don’t hesitate to correct anything that needs correcting via a follow-up comment to the above post or inline to this thread. Thanks! – /M:D M. David P. Co-Founder & Chief Architect, 3rd&Urban, LLC Email: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid | removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid | Mobile: (206) 418-9027 [http://3rdandUrban.com/](http://3rdandUrban.com/) | [http://amp.fm/](http://amp.fm/) | [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2354/](http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2354/) ---
**Author:** ![micx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@micx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/micx)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 10:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-net-vs-ironruby-overview-posted-to-oreilynet-windows-devcenter/124759/2 "2008-01-02T10:21:37Z")
2008/1/2, M. David P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > **[O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training](https://www.oreilly.com)** > > Gain technology and business knowledge and hone your skills with learning resources created and curated by O'Reilly's experts: live online training, video, books, our platform has content from 200+ of the world's best publishers. You wrote: What about support for Ruby on Rails? > From the [Ruby.NET](http://Ruby.NET) side there are only a handful of obstacles left to overcome… This is not my impression. For example, there needs to be an implementation of Socket. And Mutex. And another “same name” issue, i.e. thread.rb and thread.so. And who know what. Not to mention [ADO.NET](http://ADO.NET) backend to ActiveRecord (like ActiveRecord-JDBC) and other niceties. By the way, I think a lot of Ruby and .NET integration can be developed right now, without waiting for IronRuby or [Ruby.NET](http://Ruby.NET), by using RubyCLR which has no compatibility problems. ---
**Author:** ![micx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@micx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/micx)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-net-vs-ironruby-overview-posted-to-oreilynet-windows-devcenter/124759/3 "2008-01-02T17:26:51Z")
M. David P.: > FYI… This post is _LONG_ overdue, but later is better than never. 😃 > > [O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training](http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2008/01/rubynet_vs_ironruby_what) > s\_the.html > > Please don’t hesitate to correct anything that needs correcting via a > follow-up comment to the above post or inline to this thread. > > Thanks! Thanks for the write-up, David! I posted a response on my blog: [http://www.iunknown.com/2008/01/ironruby-vs-rub.html](http://www.iunknown.com/2008/01/ironruby-vs-rub.html) since I really do need an excuse to blog these days 🙂 T-John ---
**Author:** ![micx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@micx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/micx)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-net-vs-ironruby-overview-posted-to-oreilynet-windows-devcenter/124759/4 "2008-01-02T18:46:26Z")
On 1/2/08, John L. (DLR) [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > I posted a response on my blog: > > [http://www.iunknown.com/2008/01/ironruby-vs-rub.html](http://www.iunknown.com/2008/01/ironruby-vs-rub.html) Thanks! I’ve updated the post and integrated your comments inline to the post where applicable. > > since I really do need an excuse to blog these days 🙂 Oh, I’m sure you’ve just got just oodles of time on your hands these days, huh?! 😉 Well, since you’re obviously looking for things to do with the extra seven seconds you have each week to work on “side” projects ;-), before I forget > [http://ironruby.net](http://ironruby.net) still points to the GoDaddy default parked page > where as [http://www.ironruby.net](http://www.ironruby.net) properly points to your server. Not a > huge thing, but seems worth pointing out. Hope your Holidays were great, John! – /M:D M. David P. Co-Founder & Chief Architect, 3rd&Urban, LLC Email: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid | removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid | Mobile: (206) 418-9027 [http://3rdandUrban.com](http://3rdandUrban.com) | [http://amp.fm](http://amp.fm) | [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2354](http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2354)