Using IronRuby from Ruby (newbie)

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Hello,

I’m working in an environment that’s very Ruby heavy and I’ve never used
ruby before. I need to be able to access Windows performance counters in
from a Windows service is written in native Ruby (not IronRuby). I’m
traditionally a C# and JAVA programmer.

I was wondering if it might be possible for Ruby to be able to access
the .Net System.Diagnostics performance counters via IronRuby. Of
course, if there’s a much simpler way I’m all ears.

I tried searching the forum and it seems my searching skills are not up
to par and apologize if this has been already answered. Thanks in
advance for any help.

Ameer.

2

You can access System.Diagnostics via IronRuby. However, you will have
to
use the IronRuby interpreter to run your native ruby code, which is
something I guess you are not willing to do (yet).

Maybe you’d better look for a gem or a Ruby library that simplifies
performance counter access…

Thanks,
Shay.

Shay F.
Author of IronRuby Unleashed
http://www.IronShay.com
Follow me: http://twitter.com/ironshay

3

To access the .NET framework from MRI (the Ruby implementation you are
currently using), your best bet is to use RubyCLR:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyclr/. It is a native bridge between
Ruby and the CLR, using Ruby’s Win32OLE support to talk directly to the
CLR hosting APIs.

~js

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Subject: [Ironruby-core] Using IronRuby from Ruby (newbie)

Hello,

I’m working in an environment that’s very Ruby heavy and I’ve never used
ruby before. I need to be able to access Windows performance counters in
from a Windows service is written in native Ruby (not IronRuby). I’m
traditionally a C# and JAVA programmer.

I was wondering if it might be possible for Ruby to be able to access
the .Net System.Diagnostics performance counters via IronRuby. Of
course, if there’s a much simpler way I’m all ears.

I tried searching the forum and it seems my searching skills are not up
to par and apologize if this has been already answered. Thanks in
advance for any help.

Ameer.

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Shay F. wrote:

You can access System.Diagnostics via IronRuby. However, you will have
to
use the IronRuby interpreter to run your native ruby code, which is
something I guess you are not willing to do (yet).

Maybe you’d better look for a gem or a Ruby library that simplifies
performance counter access…

Thanks,
Shay.

Shay F.
Author of IronRuby Unleashed
http://www.IronShay.com
Follow me: http://twitter.com/ironshay

Hi there Shay,

I’m not sure if I can run this existing ruby service (called collectd)
on IronRuby instead and I need to investigate that so your right about
the yet :). I’ll see if I can find a gem that can do what I’m looking
for. Thanks for the help.

Ameer.

5

Hi there Jimmy,

This looks very promising. Thanks very much for the pointer.

Ameer.

Jimmy S. wrote:

To access the .NET framework from MRI (the Ruby implementation you are
currently using), your best bet is to use RubyCLR:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyclr/. It is a native bridge between
Ruby and the CLR, using Ruby’s Win32OLE support to talk directly to the
CLR hosting APIs.

~js

6

To high speed access the .NET framework from Ruby you can write own Ruby
extension on C++/CLI. So you can create custom wrapper for .NET class
and optimize them for your needs.

7

Yeah, RubyCLR is that.

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Hi there Shay,

Using IronRuby to run the ruby code turned out to be easier than I
thought. I’m able to run the code on IronRuby and access the
System.Diagnostics namespace. Thanks very much for your help.

Ameer.

Shay F. wrote:

You can access System.Diagnostics via IronRuby. However, you will have
to
use the IronRuby interpreter to run your native ruby code, which is
something I guess you are not willing to do (yet).

Maybe you’d better look for a gem or a Ruby library that simplifies
performance counter access…

Thanks,
Shay.

Shay F.
Author of IronRuby Unleashed
http://www.IronShay.com
Follow me: http://twitter.com/ironshay