In the end, I think that it’s important to judge our effort based on the code that we ship. We’re going to ship our first CodePlex release of IronRuby at OSCON this year.

There has been a lot of speculation about Microsofts intentions towards our daughter Ruby. Will they try to turn Ruby into Ruby++ the same way they tried with Java? John has been VERY transparent about the process and his intentions. I can safely say that if the project gets derailed (pun intended) in any way, that it won’t be because of John Lams efforts.

That being said, I have no idea how Rails would work inside the CLR. Would your Rails app run as a service on the server? Would it be a new type that gets filtered and executed by ASP.NET?