IronRuby

I have a few small projects that I'd like to do and thought I'd try them in Ruby.  And not just any Ruby, but IronRuby.

While this is an official MS project, it is being developed largely in the open.  The mailing list is the primary communication vehicle.

I downloaded and installed the Turtoise SVN client for Windows.  It wants to reboot; I deferred.

I downloaded and installed the One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows.  It didn't want to reboot.

After rebooting (I updated my copy of VMWare Fusion in the meantime), I created a c:\IronRuby folder and used the context menu (right-click) to "SVN Checkout..." from svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/ironruby

Lots of files flew by in the little window.

I launched VS 2008, performed a conversion of IronRuby.sln, and built and ran the console.  To my surprise, everything worked just fine.

All-in-all, it went quite smoothly.  Now, I'll start poking around the code... I can't wait for the next check-in from John Lam & co. with the debugging goodies.