how to use Ruby libraries with Ironruby - ruby

Question

I would like to use traditional Ruby libraries (1.8.6) with Ironruby. I'm having problems. For instance, "require 'thread'" doesn't seem to work in an Ironruby script. Do I need to put the ruby libraries in the Ironruby lib folder?

Answer 1

IronRuby use igem, you can use igem ENV to inspect where are the gems, and install the missing one using igem install.
C:\devkit\home\demo>igem ENV
RubyGems Environment:
- RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.7
- RUBY VERSION: 1.9.2 (2010-08-18 patchlevel 0) [i386-mswin32]
- INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: C:/Program Files (x86)/IronRuby 1.1/Lib/ruby/gems/1.
9.1
- RUBY EXECUTABLE: "C:/Program Files (x86)/IronRuby 1.1/bin/ir.exe"
- EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: C:/Program Files (x86)/IronRuby 1.1/bin
- RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
- ruby
- universal-dotnet-4.0
- GEM PATHS:
- C:/Program Files (x86)/IronRuby 1.1/Lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1
- C:/Users/Ronda/.gem/ironruby/1.9.1
- GEM CONFIGURATION:
- :update_sources => true
- :verbose => true
- :benchmark => false
- :backtrace => false
- :bulk_threshold => 1000
- REMOTE SOURCES:
- http://rubygems.org/
C:\devkit\home\demo>ir
IronRuby 1.1.3.0 on .NET 4.0.30319.239
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
>>> require 'thread'
=> true