After created IronRuby project in VS2010 by using IronRuby v1.1.x, I was able to use almost .NET library by importing them. But can't actually compile ironruby into exe/DLL. I see the build option but can't build any exe or DLL from IronRuby project.
You can't compile your IronRuby classes into a .NET assembly and then access them from another assembly.
Preet is right that the nearest you can get is to embed your IronRuby scripts in (say) a C# assembly. From the C# side it would then be possible to instantiate your Ruby classes. So given the following Ruby class:
class HelloWorld
def say_hello
puts 'Hello'
end
end
You could load this from a resource file and run it from C#:
using Microsoft.Scripting.Hosting;
using Microsoft.Scripting.Runtime;
using IronRuby;
var runtime = IronRuby.Ruby.CreateRuntime();
var engine = runtime.GetEngine("ruby");
var assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
var stream = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("PathToResource.test.rb");
string code = new StreamReader(stream).ReadToEnd();
var scope = engine.CreateScope();
engine.Execute(code, scope);
dynamic helloWorldClass = engine.Runtime.Globals.GetVariable("HelloWorld");
dynamic ironRubyObject = engine.Operations.CreateInstance(helloWorldClass);
ironRubyObject.say_hello();