# Send your IronRuby usage and quotes **URL:** \ **Category:** IronRuby\ **Created:** [July 18, 2010, 10:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/send-your-ironruby-usage-and-quotes/191791 "2010-07-18T22:39:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jsoho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@jsoho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jsoho)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 10:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/send-your-ironruby-usage-and-quotes/191791/1 "2010-07-18T22:39:43Z")
All, It’s that time again, where I ask everyone to post what specifically you use IronRuby for, your opinions about IronRuby, or anything you want to say about the project. Just reply to this thread with what you want to say, but also feel free to reply directly to me if you don’t want to tell the world about it (removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid). I’d like to take whatever public info and put it on [http://ironruby.net/About/Usage](http://ironruby.net/About/Usage) and [http://ironruby.net/About/Quotes](http://ironruby.net/About/Quotes). Even if you have talked about your IronRuby usages and praise on the mailing list before, please send again! This makes sure we know about it and put it online. Thanks! ~Jimmy ---
**Author:** ![jsoho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@jsoho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jsoho)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/send-your-ironruby-usage-and-quotes/191791/2 "2010-07-19T03:31:15Z")
We’re using IronRuby as an integration layer in our .NET applications. All of our client/server apps fire fine grained business events whenever anything interesting happens. We set up a convention based file structure on our app servers that can allow us to handle any of these events by dropping rb files in a directory with certain names that match the event we want to handle, and the context surrounding each event is given to that ruby code during execution. (We use [GitHub - PlasticLizard/Bracket: Bracket allows you to easily host Ruby Rack based applications and middleware from within your .NET applications or servers via IronRuby. Supports a variety of embedded web servers. Also allows IronRuby to access the standard libraries / gems / etc directly out of zip files, allowing for simpliefied, x-copy deployment of IronRuby enabled apps.](http://github.com/PlasticLizard/Bracket) to boil IronRuby down to a zip file for easy versioning and deployment without having to actually install IronRuby on our deployment targets). We used to have a formal .NET message contract for each type of event we wanted to send out of our systems (a la WCF or NServiceBus), but we’ve found it much more flexible to do the mapping in IronRuby and compose our outbound messages in dynamic code. So far we’re using this scheme to write XML files to network shares for other apps to pick up or to publish messages to a RabbitMQ broker (via the Bunny gem, which works well with IronRuby). Having the combined power of .NET and Ruby and the flexibility of Ruby at the integration layer is very liberating. IronRuby was the gateway drug at our shop to Ruby itself, so now instead of using .NET/SQL Server for our web apps we use Rails/MongoDB and deploy on Linux boxes hosted at Rackspace, but because of IronRuby we are able to share a common set of messaging libraries at the edges of the systems, which reduces friction quite a bit. We can evolve our integrations with our .NET applications orders of magnitude faster using IronRuby than we used to achieve purely using managed code, which, of course, requires a full build/package/deploy cycle for any kind of change, and change at the integration layer especially in an event-driven environment is usually fast and furious. My hope for IronRuby is that it will someday run native gems and be truly cross platform. Every time I try to use IronRuby as a first class environment, meaning beyond auxiliary roles such as integration or automation scripts, I hit a brick wall pretty quickly - things like EventMachine, cloud storage gems, image processing, etc. somehow always pop up as requirements, and eliminate IronRuby as a viable runtime, which is too bad, because otherwise I would prefer it to MRI or JRuby given our extensive .NET investments. All in all though we are tremendously happy with the technology. For me, it is probably the most exciting addition to the .NET landscape that I can remember, with potential that far exceeds things like [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) MVC or Entity Framework or whatever other edgy things MS is putting out. Thanks for all the hard work! Nathan From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Jimmy Schementi Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 1:17 PM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Subject: [Ironruby-core] Send your IronRuby usage and quotes All, It’s that time again, where I ask everyone to post what specifically you use IronRuby for, your opinions about IronRuby, or anything you want to say about the project. Just reply to this thread with what you want to say, but also feel free to reply directly to me if you don’t want to tell the world about it (removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid). I’d like to take whatever public info and put it on [http://ironruby.net/About/Usage](http://ironruby.net/About/Usage) and [http://ironruby.net/About/Quotes](http://ironruby.net/About/Quotes). Even if you have talked about your IronRuby usages and praise on the mailing list before, please send again! This makes sure we know about it and put it online. Thanks! ~Jimmy ---
**Author:** ![jsoho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@jsoho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jsoho)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/send-your-ironruby-usage-and-quotes/191791/3 "2010-07-19T16:42:29Z")
Hi, I use Iron ruby as the glue between sqlserver, dynamic processing for complex order scheduling, with excel connections for review/updating of scheduling. The tools that I am missing so far (and I guess that it is because IronRuby is a new platform within the .net universe) are: a) a simple GUI platform (or a nice port of either Shoes / FXRuby / wxRuby for .net) - WPF/Silverlight targeting would be great!!! b) An IronRuby IDE (VS10 support maybe?) What I find great about IronRuby is all the technologies you can target from IronRuby within the same environment: SqlServer (using ActiveRecord gem as an example) Excel (through: load\_assembly “Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel”) and all the other ones: xml, yaml, json, http, ftp, etc. I’m not saying that we cannot access all the technologies using plain .net. However, in the .net world, you really have to master several “visual” environments just to accomplish a simple CRUD: EntityFramework / Linq SQLServer either [VB.NET](http://VB.NET) or C# Blend (or VS xaml) if you want to work with “visual” design of the screens, having to figure out how to “Bind” controls to tables, Excel VBA, in case of some automation in Excel directly, etc. etc. And all the source generated for each of the components is just very long and difficult to grasp if you need to maintain the code in a later time. With IronRuby (and RUBY), due to its Dynamic nature and the elegance of the language, the DRY concept, the testing capabilities and the immediate execution of ir, this gives back the “fun” part of programming to developers. It also contributes to improving development productivity big time. It is NOT the same to maintain a 600 line piece of code, scattered across different environments and a 60 line piece of code with the same functionality in only one environment. Please continue with this great work, you are really heading in the right direction!!! . Jimmy S. wrote: > All, > > It’s that time again, where I ask everyone to post what specifically you > use > IronRuby for, your opinions about IronRuby, or anything you want to say > about the project. Just reply to this thread with what you want to say, > but > also feel free to reply directly to me if you don’t want to tell the > world > about it ([removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)). I’d like to take whatever public info > and > put it on [http://ironruby.net/About/Usage](http://ironruby.net/About/Usage) and > [http://ironruby.net/About/Quotes](http://ironruby.net/About/Quotes). > > Even if you have talked about your IronRuby usages and praise on the > mailing > list before, please send again! This makes sure we know about it and put > it > online. > > Thanks! > ~Jimmy ---
**Author:** ![jsoho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@jsoho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jsoho)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/send-your-ironruby-usage-and-quotes/191791/4 "2010-07-21T14:58:24Z")
Hi Jimmy, I’ve just released the first version of IronMock ( [http://bit.ly/ironmock](http://bit.ly/ironmock) ) which uses 9 lines of embedded IronRuby to apply interfaces to objects at runtime. It can be used for duck-typing any object, but there’s also a DynamicObject-based mocking class. If you want a quote: “I achieved in a couple of lunchbreaks and a few lines of Ruby and C# something which used to take reams of IL Emit code. IronRuby rocks.” Cheers, Mark ---
**Author:** ![jsoho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@jsoho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jsoho)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2010, 9:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/send-your-ironruby-usage-and-quotes/191791/5 "2010-08-06T09:14:38Z")
We have taken to use IronRuby from pre-alpha stage in our GUI conversion project where we are transforming Napa SW GUI (1 mil+ SLOC) from Motif + custom script language to WPF + IronRuby. So we are using IronRuby as WPF scripting language. Still wishing for more XAML + IronRuby interop, but we manage with this level as well. Robert B. Software architect Napa Ltd Tammasaarenkatu 3, Helsinki FI-00180 P.O.Box 470, Helsinki FI-00181 Tel. +358 9 22 813 1 Direct. +358 9 22 813 611 GSM +358 45 11 456 02 Fax. +358 9 22 813 800 Email: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > **[Home – NAPA](https://www.napa.fi/)** > > NAPA provides intelligent solutions for maritime industry: Software, Services and Data Analysis for Ship Design and Operation. We combine naval architecture, shipping and digital expertise to help maritime business make the decisions that matter. ---
**Author:** ![jsoho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@jsoho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jsoho)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/send-your-ironruby-usage-and-quotes/191791/6 "2011-06-12T20:33:01Z")
Dug this old thread up and added the posts to [IronLanguage usages · IronLanguages/main Wiki · GitHub](https://github.com/IronLanguages/main/wiki/IronLanguage-usages); if you have anything to add, feel free to add it to the wiki page directly. ~Jimmy ---
**Author:** ![jsoho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@jsoho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jsoho)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/send-your-ironruby-usage-and-quotes/191791/7 "2010-07-24T14:31:18Z")
We’ve been using IronRuby for dialplan scripts on [sipsorcery.com](http://sipsorcery.com) for a couple of years now. The IronRuby scripts let VoIP users control how their calls get routed around the place. Some of the scripts written by users have become pretty sophisticated: [http://code.google.com/p/google-voice-sipsorcery-dialplans/source/browse/trunk/SIP%20Sorcery%20Dial%20Plans/DialPlans/ComplexDialPlan](http://code.google.com/p/google-voice-sipsorcery-dialplans/source/browse/trunk/SIP%20Sorcery%20Dial%20Plans/DialPlans/ComplexDialPlan) Regards, Aaron