In this episode, I talk with Aaron Junod and Michael Letterle on the state of the IronRuby project for the .NET framework.

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We discuss the following:

• Why Ruby?
• Dynamic Typing
• How Ruby has affected the industry
• Microsoft accepting community contributions
• What about running IronRuby on Rails?
• What about running IronRuby on the ASP.NET MVC?
• Sneaking Ruby into the enterprise with IronRuby
• IronRuby’s readiness
• Ruby Programming Language
• try ruby!