[Ironruby-core] Busy Day with IronRuby

[Michael Letterle]

I'm actually getting ready to work on an IronRuby quick start blog
post, based on my experiences, but this is the simplest "hello world"
using the hosting mechanism I could come up with:

using System;
using Ruby.Runtime;
using Microsoft.Scripting.Hosting;
namespace RubyExample
{
    static class Program
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The main entry point for the application.
        /// </summary>
        [STAThread]
        static void Main()
        {
            IScriptEnvironment scriptenvironment =
ScriptEnvironment.GetEnvironment();
            IScriptEngine rubyengine = scriptenvironment.GetEngine("ruby");
            scriptenvironment.ExecuteSourceUnit(rubyengine.CreateScriptSourceFromString("puts
'Hello World!\nPress Any Key To Continue..'") );
            Console.ReadKey();

        }
    }
}

be sure to add references to Microsof.Scripting.dll and IronRuby.dll
(and IronRuby.Libraries.dll if you're so inclined).

You can also use scriptenvironment.ExecuteFile(pathtofile) if you have
your ruby script inn a standalone file.

On Jan 27, 2008 6:16 PM, Greg Akins <angrygreg at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, so I couldn't get some of the simple examples of using RubyEngine
> to start calling Ruby from C#...
>
> So I spent a bit reading through the mailing list archives (realizing
> while doing that, that I'd asked a frequently asked question).
>
> Now, I hope I'm not asking another stupid question.
>
> I found another post (
> http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/ironruby-core/2008-January/000616.html
> ) that suggests a method of running Ruby.
>
> However, I get an error on this line
>
>             IScriptEngine engine = IronRuby.GetEngine(runtime);
>
> Which shows this stack trace
>
>    at System.RuntimeMethodHandle._InvokeConstructor(Object[] args,
> SignatureStruct& signature, IntPtr declaringType)
>    at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeConstructor(Object[] args,
> SignatureStruct signature, RuntimeTypeHandle declaringType)
>    at System.Reflection.RuntimeConstructorInfo.Invoke(BindingFlags
> invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture)
>    at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(BindingFlags bindingAttr,
> Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture, Object[]
> activationAttributes)
>    at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, BindingFlags
> bindingAttr, Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture,
> Object[] activationAttributes)
>    at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Object[] args)
>    at Microsoft.Scripting.Utils.ReflectionUtils.CreateInstance[T](Type
> actualType, Object[] args) in
> c:\Libraries\IronRuby\trunk\src\microsoft.scripting\Utils\ReflectionUtils.cs:line
> 127
>
> --
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-- 
Michael Letterle
[Polymath Programmer]
http://michaeldotnet.blogspot.com