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Ruby and .NET - Making The Connection
Introducing the Ruby Connector12 September 2007
by Huw Collingbourne
In my life away from Bitwise I am one of the developers of the Ruby In Steel Ruby (On Rails) IDE for Visual Studio. The Ruby language has many attractions but visual form design isn’t one of them.
To help bridge that gap, we have just released a free drag-and-drop control (the ‘Ruby Connector’) that lets your .NET programs communicate directly with the Ruby interpreter. This not only allows you to take full advantage of the Visual Studio form designer in order to develop good-looking front ends to your Ruby programs; but it also lets your .NET programs evaluate expressions using the Ruby interpreter or run entire Ruby programs from right inside a C#, Chrome or VB .NET application.
Anyway, the Ruby Connector is free. It comes with lots of ready-to-run sample programs and it has its own 35 page PDF manual and tutorial. You don’t need Ruby In Steel to use it – you can just install the control right into the Toolbox of any standard .NET language. Naturally, I happen to think that you would be better to use Ruby In Steel too – and add all its Ruby-programming goodness to Visual Studio. But that’s your choice...
Download the Ruby Connector (not to mention a copy of Ruby In Steel) from the SapphireSteel Software site.
