Ruby.NET

Short introduction

The project aims to create a Ruby compiler for .NET.
The initial development is based on the the Ruby.NET proposal.
It is not suitable for production work right now.

Source code access

Source code is stored in the Mono Subversion repository.

svn co svn+ssh://mono-cvs.ximian.com/source/trunk/rubynet

Architecture

Based on NetRuby by arton

Files

File	Functions	Status
Built-in classes
Class.cs	Class and Module class (method dispatch etc.)
Object.cs	Object class, Ruby main module
Thread.cs	Dynamic scoping, Thread and ThreadGroup class
Kernel.cs	Kernel module
Array.cs	Array class
Bignum.cs	Bignum class
Const.cs	constants nil, false, true, undef
Enum.cs	Enumerable module
Exception.cs	Non-local control flow (tags), Exception class
Hash.cs	Hash class
IO.cs	IO module	incomplete
Numeric.cs	Fixnum, Float class
Proc.cs	Proc class
Regexp.cs	Regexp class
String.cs	String class
Symbol.cs	Symbol class
Time.cs	Time class
Compiler internals
NETRuby.cs	Ruby interpreter state, main class
codegen.cs	Code generator for compiler
Scanner.cs	Scanner (lexer) for Ruby source code
node.cs	AST node classes for Ruby syntax
node_print.cs	Pretty-printer for AST, automatically generated
parse.y	Parser for Ruby source code
skeleton.cs	Parser skeleton for Jay
Loader.cs	Module/file loader	incomplete

Types

.NET type	Ruby type	Ruby.NET class/value
int	Fixnum	RFixnum
float	Float	RFloat
bool	false, true	RFalse, RTrue (NetRuby.oTrue, NetRuby.oFalse)
null	nil	RNil (NetRuby.oNil)
char[] (mutable string)	String	RString
object	Object	RBasic/RObject
object[]	Array	RArray
Hashtable	Hash	RHash