Comments on: IronNails : Rails like development for IronRuby with WPF/Silverlight

By: ivan

ivan — Mon, 25 May 2009 08:04:31 +0000

I define the classes in C# because ironruby types still lack support for certain things. What you’re actually doing is work that will eventually be done by IronRuby itself. If IronRuby, when it goes 1.0, still doesn’t support databinding in WPF I’ll put it in IronNails. There are a couple more workarounds in there that I can remove and I will do that when I’m done writing samples and texts for my book.
For my personally my priority at the moment is getting a mocking framework so I can do proper testing on IronRuby for Ruby to CLR integration and the ironruby mvc thing which is as good as done. I need those for my book after which I’m building a commercial product based on the ironnails framework. So the IronNails framework will continue to evolve as it is to be the base framework for many of my own applications.

In your case you would need to create a collection class yes (you need the NotifyCollectionChangedEvent which IronRuby can’t override yet at this moment) and you would need to define the models you’re going to bind to, from xaml, in C# too because of the NotifyPropertyChanged event and the property implementations).

I hope this helps

By: cruizer

cruizer — Mon, 25 May 2009 07:52:11 +0000

neat idea, we definitely need stuff like this on the .NET platform!

it seems for the view model, you are to use a CLR object to wrap over the Ruby object that is the actual model. is my understanding correct? for controls like the DataGrid (WPF Toolkit in CodePlex), will that mean I will have to have some CLR object wrap over my collection object/array in Ruby, then have another set of CLR objects to wrap over each individual item in the collection?

By: James S

James S — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:01:55 +0000

This is wonderful idea.

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