Comments on: A status report on the IronRuby in Action book

By: Scott Lowe

Scott Lowe — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:58 +0000

I think that you are correct in focusing upon WPF over WinForms – I would surmise that your audience for your book would be the kind of developer that is either cutting edge and forward thinking, greenfield, or both; so it is quite likely that they will already have moved on to WPF or be planning a migration to WPF.

By: Vikram

Vikram — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:23:20 +0000

Hey there,

By any means is it possible to run Active Record / Data Mapper with plain Asp.Net MVC developed with IronRuby.

Using AR + DataMapper with Iron Ruby on any scenarious will be very good implementation.

Can you focus a bit on this.

By: zombie

zombie — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:31:44 +0000

By all means emphasise WPF, but don’t ignore Winforms completely. For backwards compatibility give a couple of examples of how to develop against Winforms, in case anyone needs to know how. Just enough for people to figure out the basics and then extrapolate for themselves.

By: Alex Young

Alex Young — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:53:22 +0000

I’d love to see a decent treatment of WPF, but WinForms is completely useless to me. Then again, I’m probably biased

I don’t know if you’ve thought about it at all, but an approach to using (something like) Rails’ rjs templates with ASP.NET would be quite interesting, especially if you think that, with Silverlight, they could potentially be executed client-side rather than baked to JS.

By: Peter Mendis

Peter Mendis — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:24:50 +0000

Hi,

I would suggest you to go for just 2 or 3 ORM’s
and in this order..

(1) Rails Active Record
(2) Linq2Sql
(3) SubSonic

You may explain others via your blog or some online tutorials.

How about posting this question in IronRuby forums to gain more response,. the way… the wrox did for their book called ” Professional Ruby “

my 2 cents

Mendis Peter

By: admin

admin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:25:09 +0000

Yes it will. I will publish it on this blog and on http://rubydoes.net

By: Chris Vickerson

Chris Vickerson — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:20:50 +0000

Will your book be available in MEAP?

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