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NETRuby a la interpreter

These source files are an experiment of straight porting from C to C#.

nrb [options] script [script args...]
nrb -e "script-line"

Use Cases

Command Line Interpreter

It maybe works (in near future). But I think if you'd like to run ruby as an interpreter, it's better to use original ruby. It's more efficient, I think.

Embedded Object - native interface

See samples in the archive.
At this time, only valid object and methods are

NetRuby it self
public NetRuby Constructor
public object NetRuby::Funcall(object receiver, string methodname, params object[] argv);
as same as rb_funcall();
public object NetRuby::EvalString(string script);
as same as rb_eval_string();
RBignum is Bignum
RString is String (not same as System.String, because RString has Tainted flag)
RFloat is Float
RNumeric is a superclass as Numeric
RArray is Array
RProc is Proc
RThread is Thread
RTime is Time
RRegexp is Regexp (simple System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex rwapper)
RMatchData is MatchData (System.Text.RegularExpressions.Group wrapper)

Another public classes and methods will be changed in the future version.

DotNet class reference

the point

Because NETRuby is an object, you can have multiple NETRuby at the same time, at the same process. Unlike original Ruby, the evaluation tree and namespaces are completely separated (the original has only one monolithic space).
At this time, only the plan, but I'll implement native thread interface. This implies the fact that current NETRuby is not thread safe. - I just finished this working (on 22 Feb.). Some methods (for ex. NetRuby::Options(string[] argv);) are not safe, but EvalString() is safe. See mthread sample in the source archive.

Embedded Script Engine - Framework interface

At this time, not implemented.

the point

ASP.NET
VS.NET

Compliler

At this time, not implemented.

RWiki page about NETRuby.

Copyright

Unlike ActiveScriptRuby (that uses GPL, Because it's Binary Standard and not tightly coupled with another program), NETRuby is under LGPL.

May 2001: NOTRuby the compiler. (the relation is Ruby:NOTRuby = Java:JScript) -- I'm boarding with it.
Jan 2002: Nrb a la interpreter.

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