So John Lam annouced the alpha release of IronRuby, he mentions that they did a lot of work on string and arrays, unfortunately, with the current release .NET types aren't able to execute Ruby mixins. I was hoping to do something like the following:

require 'mscorlib' 

require 'System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, 

PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'  



list = System::Collections::ArrayList.new

list.Add(5) 

list.Add(10)

list.Add(15)

list.extend Enumerable

list.each {|i| puts i.to_i}



The following code does execute:



require 'mscorlib'

require 'System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, 

PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'

require 'System.Drawing, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, 

PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' 

require 'System.Windows.Forms, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, 

PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'



Application = System::Windows::Forms::Application

Form = System::Windows::Forms::Form

Button = System::Windows::Forms::Button

Point = System::Drawing::Point 

Size = System::Drawing::Size 

MessageBox = System::Windows::Forms::MessageBox  

window = Form.new window.text = 'Testing IronRuby' 

window.size = Size.new(250, 200)

button = Button.new 

button.text = 'Click Me' 

button.location = Point.new(75, 75)

button.click {|sender, e| MessageBox.show 'I was clicked'}

window.controls.add(button)

Application.EnableVisualStyles

Application.run(window)

Of all the windowing toolkits I've seen for Ruby, the .NET Framework is the easiest to read for me, although I'm sure toolkits like Swiby will get noticed, especially due to it's DSL syntax which is the new hotness in the development world these days. Next up, extending the IronRuby Builtins.