Ruby.Net (fka Garden Point Ruby.Net) Moving to a New OSS Model (and works in Visual Studio 2005...)

ruby-talk-google - Ruby.NET moves to full open source community model

"The Gardens Point Ruby.NET project (http://www.plas.fit.qut.edu.au/Ruby.NET) would like to announce that we are moving to a new open source community model.

While we at QUT will continue to be heavily involved in the project, we plan to transfer full control and ownership of the project to the open source community. To signify this new beginning, the new project will be named simply "Ruby.NET" (rather than "Gardens Point Ruby.NET") and a new licence agreement will be developed (by the community). ..."

QUT - Gardens Point Ruby.NET Compiler

"New Beta Release 0.8.1 (June 2007)

We are pleased to announce the release of a new Beta (version 0.8.1) of the Gardens Point Ruby.NET compiler. Since the last release we have added support for interoperability with other .NET languages, so that components developed using other .NET languages can conveniently use classes implemented using Ruby.NET and vice versa. The following example shows how we can now write a Ruby.NET program that uses the standard .NET libraries:

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Previous Release Annoucement (May 2007)

We are pleased to announce the release of a new Beta (version 0.7) of the Gardens Point Ruby.NET compiler. Since the last release we have added support for debugging (by generating pdb files) and have created a Visual Studio integration package allowing users to edit, build, execute and debug Ruby programs within Visual Studio 2005.

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Want to play with Ruby, but don't want to give up Visual Studio 2005? Then Ruby.Net may be your ticket to Ruby'ness...

 

(via TheServerSide.Net - GardensPoint Ruby.NET goes open source)