PORTLAND, Ore.—Microsoft officials are continuing to push their open-source IronRuby effort to deliver an implementation of Ruby that runs on the .Net Framework, making several announcements July 24 at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention here.

John Lam, head of the IronRuby effort, said Microsoft will ship all standard Ruby libraries that are implemented in the Ruby programming language as part of the IronRuby distribution, hosted on RubyForge.  "They will ship as part of our first binary distribution of IronRuby," Lam said.

In addition, he said Microsoft will participate in the RubySpec project. RubySpec is a standard test suite that will be used to define compliant Ruby implementations. At the conference, Lam displayed Microsoft's initial “commits" to the effort. He said the company would deliver more in a matter of days.

He also said Microsoft will create IronRuby-Contrib, a separate open-source project under the MsPL (Microsoft Public License).