Using ruby libraries with IronRuby

Ruby IronRuby
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I have a bunch of things running around in my head that I’m curious
about
regarding IronRuby and I’m not sure where to find the answer. I figure
my
best bet is to drop my questions here.

The first question I have is what the current status is regarding using
existing Ruby libraries from IronRuby. One of the use cases where I
could
see a lot of .NET developers using IronRuby is for writing
specificiations/unit tests for their code. I’ve been experimenting with
testing some really simple classes written in C# with simple test and
I’d
like to see if/how IronRuby could get to the next level of testing which
might include being able to mock/stub behavior. I’ve used mocha a bit
on a
couple Ruby projects and am wondering if someone could help me
understand
where IronRuby is in regards to being able to use a ruby library such as
mocha. The second part of the question is what is the best method for
determining what’s needed (but not yet implemented in IronRuby) for a
given
ruby library to run.

Now assuming it could run an external ruby library, how would you need
to
setup IronRuby to properly load it? I assume that’s coming when we get
gems

  • yaml support and will just be a require ‘mocha’?

Cheers,
Steve

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You can try requiring any existing libraries out there, but you’ll
likely to run into issues where IronRuby simply hasn’t implemented
either syntax or built-in libraries yet. Check the archives of this
list a bit, Wayne K. has been doing a fantastic job of testing ruby
gem’s setup.rb file (which is the first step to alot of things), the
wiki page for his findings is here:
http://ironruby.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?TowardsRails

Remember, the end goal of IronRuby is to run “real ruby programs”, so
yes it should just be “require mocha”, with perhaps some bridging
layer (written in ruby) being required.

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Steve E. [email protected]
wrote:

might include being able to mock/stub behavior. I’ve used mocha a bit on a
Cheers,
Steve

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