IronRuby @ MIX 08
04. Mar, 2008 
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We announced IronRuby almost one year ago at MIX. We’ve come a long way since then, and we’re going back to MIX to talk about where we are, where we’re going and how you can help.
We’ve had a lot of fantastic help from our community to get us to where we are today. Our early contributors, Curt Hagenlocher and Peter Bacon Darwin helped us kick start the Open Source phase of IronRuby. Our most recent contributor, Wayne Kelly, is helping us drive our libraries effort while the team was busy getting ready for MIX. And to cap things off, Huw and Dermot over at Sapphire on Steel have recently released their free Personal Edition of Ruby in Steel for IronRuby.
The team spent the past month working on Silverlight integration. Yes, this means that you will be able to run Ruby in your browser in a safe security context. As of today, that means that you can run Ruby in your browser with just a 730K download (over and above Silverlight 2 which weighs in at around 4MB). Our Silverlight integration bits (and sources)will be available @ MIX once John Messerly works his magic.
I’ll be @ MIX all week and would love to talk to folks who are interested in our work. I’m using MIX to try out my new Twitter account (john_lam); you can sign up and ‘follow me’ on Twitter.
Just love the IronRuby work! Is the screenshot in the post Visual Studio? I couldn’t find any way to integrate IronRuby with VS 2008 aka C#. Any pointers much appreciated.
@Steve: yes – that’s IronRuby running in VS 2008. More on this later this week