# Standard Libraries Support

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/standard-libraries-support/169127>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [May 29, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/standard-libraries-support/169127 "2009-05-29T21:21:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![shayfriedman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@shayfriedman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shayfriedman)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/standard-libraries-support/169127/1 "2009-05-29T21:21:51Z")

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Hi,

I’m trying out the different standard libraries via IronRuby and some  
throw errors once I try to require or use them.  
The problematic ones are:  
RSS  
Finalize  
Open3  
OpenSSL  
Shell  
WeakRef

Also resolv and resolv-replace do not work but I guess it’s because of  
their win32 requests.

Should the above libraries work or is it a bug?

Thanks,  
Shay.

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**Author:** ![shayfriedman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@shayfriedman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shayfriedman)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/standard-libraries-support/169127/2 "2009-05-29T22:15:29Z")

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OpenSSL is being worked on by Jirapong. The other ones probably need to  
be rewritten in C#.

Feel free to file bugs, or claim a library to work on 😉

JD

…there is no try

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**Author:** ![shayfriedman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@shayfriedman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shayfriedman)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/standard-libraries-support/169127/3 "2009-05-29T23:10:31Z")

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So just to make sure - there are no plans of making those work for V1.0,  
right?

Thanks Jim!

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**Author:** ![shayfriedman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@shayfriedman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shayfriedman)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 12:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/standard-libraries-support/169127/4 "2009-05-30T00:13:54Z")

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Here’s a quick rundown (~30mins worth of looking at these libraries)

RSS:  
RSS should work, it appears there is a bug in there with Class.inherited  
Tracking with CodePlex 1483

Finalize:  
We need to figure out what the ObjectSpace finalizers really do, and if  
we can implement those methods.  
Tracking with CodePlex 1484

Open3:  
Uses fork, so it will not work unless we completely re-implement it. The  
workaround would be having someone port the win32-open3 gem to C#  
Tracking with CodePlex 1485

OpenSSL:  
Jirapong is working on this.

Shell:  
Uses Thread.exclusive, which is defined in the thread standard library  
(as opposed to the Thread builtin class), which needs to be ported.  
Tracking with CodePlex 1485

WeakRef:  
Uses ObjectSpace#id2ref and it may be reliant on the CRuby GC internals  
Tracking with CodePlex 1487

Resolv and resolv-replace should be made to work, but they require us to  
figure out what portions of win32 they need.  
Tracking with CodePlex 1488

Ideally all of these should work for 1.0, but we may not have resources  
to do them. Anyone who wants to is welcome to help bang at them to  
narrow down the bugs, and port the needed libraries.  
JD

…there is no try

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**Author:** ![shayfriedman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@shayfriedman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shayfriedman)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 9:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/standard-libraries-support/169127/5 "2009-05-30T21:50:38Z")

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If you know an existing Ruby application which depends on these  
libraries, then that’ll make it more worthwile to get them working.

~Jimmy

On May 29, 2009, at 2:13 PM, “Shay F.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)