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RUBY I recently wrote a guest post for the blog of Eric Nelson, one our architects here at Microsoft — whom, by the way, I will be accompanying at the Scottish Ruby Conference later this month, more on that later — briefly introducing IronRuby, the implementation of Ruby running atop the .NET framework. In this piece I also touch on how to get IronRuby powering your Rails applications, but it’s fairly compatible across the board so there wasn’t much to say about that. :-)

That post can be found here, and if you’re at all interested in Rails, .NET or Ruby on Windows I recommend giving it a read. I will be following it up with one or two more articles before the conference on the topics of WPF, the rich-media component of the .NET framework; perhaps IronRuby with the ASP.NET MVC Framework for those interested in expanding their Ruby-based web development repertoire beyond Rails; and of course some elaboration on how IronRuby works and how you can better interoperate with your .NET code and the framework as a whole.

If any of this sparks your interest (and why wouldn’t it?), and you’re heading to the Scottish Ruby Conference from the 26^th to the 27^th of March 2010 — or, indeed, going to either of the charity tutorials the day before (more info here) — and would like to talk about anything IronRuby, I’d be more than happy to have a chat.

It’s very possible that we will be running a small, informal session during the conference for those that would really like to learn more and discuss the project. If that does happen, we’d love to invite any interested people along. Watch this space for more information on that.

Keep an eye out for Eric and I at the conference!

That link again:

• What’s IronRuby, and how do I put it on Rails?