Using .Net cascade assemblies

Ruby IronRuby
1

Hello.

I’ve got 2 .Net assemblies, for example, Foo.dll and Boo.dll

Boo contains
namespace BooModule
{
public class Boo
{
public string Speak()
{
return “Hello from class Boo”;
}
}

public interface IFoo
{
string Comment();
}
}

Foo contains

namespace FooModule
{
public class Foo : IFoo
{
public string Comment()
{
return “Class Foo inhereted from IFoo”;
}
}
}

In IronRuby console I try:

IronRuby 1.1.3.0 on .NET 4.0.30319.239
Copyright © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

require ‘D:\Programs\Univeris\FooBoo\bin\Boo’
=> true

include BooModule
=> Object

require ‘D:\Programs\Univeris\FooBoo\bin\Foo’
=> true

include FooModule
(ir):1:in `const_missing’: uninitialized constant Object::FooModule
(NameError)
from (ir):1

If I inherit Foo : Boo I get the same error.

But if I move the declaration to the Foo propject, so it’s like

namespace FooModule
{
public interface IFoo
{
string Comment();
}

public class Foo : IFoo
{
public string Comment()
{
return “Class Foo inhereted from IFoo”;
}
}
}

Everything works just fine.

IronRuby 1.1.3.0 on .NET 4.0.30319.239
Copyright © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

require ‘D:\Programs\Univeris\FooBoo\bin\Foo’
=> true

include FooModule
=> Object

foo = Foo.new
=> FooModule.Foo

foo.Comment
=> ‘Class Foo inhereted from IFoo’

But I’ve got a really huge program system that consists of several big
dll libraries which I want to use via IronRuby and I just can’t move all
those libraries into one dll file and into one namespace.

What am I doing wrong?

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Orion E. wrote in post #1072378:

I’m not sure exactly why this happens, I think it’s something to do with
how the .NET runtime itself delay-loads assemblies and the rules it has
for looking for dependent dll’s

There are three ways I know of to work around this:

  1. Use Dir.chdir to switch your working directory to
    D:\Programs\Univeris\FooBoo\bin before you start loading the dll’s
  2. Add to ruby’s load path using $: << ‘D:\Programs\Univeris\FooBoo\bin’
  3. Hook the CLR’s AssemblyResolve event… this is a bit more complicated,
    you can look up how this works on MSDN or I can tell you more if you’d
    like

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Thank you very much. Everything worked just fine.