I decided to try the Rails tutorial on IronRuby's site. I was pleasently surprised to find instructions for ironruby_sqlserver gem which provides ActiveRecord support. The tutorial uses SQL Express, but I had no trouble using SQL 2008 Developer instead.
Everything in the tutorial worked great. After entering a few commands and creating the Post scaffold, I had a working Rails site (2.3.5) running on WEBrick with IronRuby!
The only problem I ran into was the last step of the tutorial which runs script/console. When I ran script console, as the tutorial specified (ir script\console --irb="c:\ironruby\bin\iirb.bat") I got the following error...
IronRuby.Libraries:0:in `GetExecutable': c:\ironruby\bin\iirb.bat -r irb/comple
tion -r "C:/Users/Greg/Documents/dev/ironruby/ironrubyonrails/config/environment
" -r console_app -r console_with_helpers --simple-prompt (Errno::ENOENT)
from IronRuby.Libraries:0:in `CreateProcess'
from :0:in `exec'
from C:/ironruby/lib/ironruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/commands/console.rb:47
To get around the error, I found I could run the commandline that line 47 was attempting run through Ruby's exec:
iirb.bat -r irb/completion -r "config/environment" -r console_app -r console_with_helpers --simple-prompt
This launched a good iirb console with access to the Rails environment!
Overall I was very pleased with IronRuby and I'll have to spend more time with it.
