ironruby - for the last year i've somehow been avoiding doing any ruby work. been writing plenty of python for prototyping as and duct tape for work as well as hobby, but nothing in the way of ruby. one of the reasons i've had the opportunity to write some python is because of ironpython. no matter how much diversity i would like in my professional development the truth is i work in a microsoft shop. it's just that simple. because ironpython lives in the .net runtime i only have to be slightly creative to get some professional use out of it. with the advent of .net 3.5 microsoft (thanks in part to john lam) has introduced ironruby. much like ironpython the idea is simple. marry the .net runtime with the ruby programming language...
Now in IronRuby on Rails - Just a quick note. I've again changed the architecture of this site. It's now in IronRuby on rails, running on Windows Server 2008 with SQL 2008 R2/Solr. Previously I was using django on linux with Oracle Express/Solr which was just one node in a long list of architectures I've used here. Why the change from django? Why the choice of IronRuby-microsoft-ish stack? Well, I'll surely be blogging about that shortly when I update my Tale of a Website post. In the meantime please keep an eye out for anything not working and let me know if you find something broken.
