IronRuby presentation for VistaSquad on 15th July 2009. Video of presentation can be found on my blog @ blog.benhall.me.uk

1. IronRuby Twitter - @Ben_Hall Blog.BenHall.me.uk Ben@BenHall.me.uk

2. Tell you why you should care

3. Ruby 101 Creating WPF applications - DiskUsage Silverlight – browser repl Powershell - irpowershell Interacting with any .Net framework – Nhibernate Sinarta – very lightweight way to show data IronRuby Testing C# Embedding the DLR

4. WPF Powershell C# Ruby

5. Reason #1

7. Dynamic Language Runtime http://www.flickr.com/photos/lastrounds/3199561205/sizes/o/

8. IronPython

10. IronPython ?

11. Gary Short IronSmallTalk

12. Reason #2

13. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mag3737/1914076277/

14. MS-PL http://www.flickr.com/photos/25501212@N05/2934269081/

16. Reason #3

17. RUBY, RUBY, RUBY, Ruby...

18. Optional Syntax puts ‘Hello World’ puts(‘Hello World’) puts(‘Hello World’);

19. Simple declarations x = 1

20. Natural Programming x = [1,2,3] y = [4,5,6] x + y == [1,2,3,4,5,6]

21. Everything is an object “Hello World”.upcase [5,3,4,1,6].sort 10.times { }

22. Blocks 10.times do |i| puts i end 10.times { |i| puts i }

23. Duck Typing def print_name(obj) puts obj.get_name end http://www.flickr.com/photos/normis/337183421/

24. Duck Typing class A def get_name “My name is A” end end

25. Duck Typing class Q def get_name “My name is Q” end end

26. Duck Typing print_nameA.new print_name(Q.new)

27. Libraries require ‘rake’

28. RubyGems gem install rake Successfully installed rake-0.8.4 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for rake-0.8.4... Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.8.4...

29. Reason #4

30. .NetInterop http://www.flickr.com/photos/mendhak/2117622450/sizes/o/

31. Reason #5

33. Reason #6

34. String code = “puts ‘Hello World’” Engine = IronRuby.Ruby.CreateEngine(); Scope = Engine.CreateScope(); ScriptSourcesource = Engine.CreateScriptSourceFromString(code, SourceCodeKind.Statements); object result = source.Execute(Scope);

35. Data Gen Screenshot

36. Reflector Screenshot

37. Resolver Systems

38. How will IronRuby change your world?

39. Thank you! Twitter - @Ben_Hall Blog.BenHall.me.uk Ben@BenHall.me.uk

40. Links http://www.codeplex.com/dlr http://www.codeplex.com/Ironruby http://www.codeplex.com/ironpython http://blog.benhall.me.uk/2009/04/embedding-ironruby-and-dlr-into-red.html http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd434651.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd453038.aspx http://www.resolversystems.com http://www.manning.com/foord/