Introducing .NET Services for Ruby

Posted by .NET Services for Ruby Team on 27 October 2008

The DotNetServicesRuby team is very proud of launching the Milestone 1 - Technology Preview of Ruby SDK for Microsoft .NET Services

The purpose of this project is to provide an interoperable open source Ruby Software Development Kit (SDK) - set of libraries, tools, prescriptive patterns & guidance & real world sample applications that will enhance productivity for developers. Developers will be able to leverage the .NET Services to extend their Java applications by using the Microsoft Azure services platform to build, deploy and manage reliable, internet-scale applications.

The project has been released as an open source project under BSD license.

The focus of this release is to demonstrate interoperable architecture, Service Bus and Web-Style (REST) Authentication. The detailed API documentation is available here. We are excited about making this initial version available to you and look forward to your feedback.

Some of the features we have included in the build are:

• Access Control Service
• Volatile Message Buffer (interactions)
• Authentication
• Web-style-HttpRelayBinding
• Interactive Credentials
• Notification Service
• ServiceBus Environment Settings

Please feel free to download source code from the download page. Alternatively, you may also try out the “Billboard” sample application that leverages the capabilities of DotNetServicesRuby.

Please give it a try and give us your feedback on the tracker, and join the discussion on the mailing list.

Stay tuned for future releases!

DotNetServicesRuby Team