ironruby-assembly-loading.rb

# The first load path contains rb files which load .NET based libraries, 
# including the standard library and the .NET library
$:
# => ["c:/dev/ironruby/Merlin/Main/Languages/Ruby/libs/", 
#     "c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/", 
#     "c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/", "."]

# Special require which enables CLR interop 
# (mscorlib.rb doesn't exist on the load path)
require 'mscorlib'

# Loads system.rb (from the first load path), which requires 
# System.dll by strong name
require 'system'

# Does the same as the above
require 'System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'

# Loads strscan.rb (from the first load path), which is a
# Ruby standard library, which is implemented in IronRuby.Libraries.dll
require 'strscan'

# Does the same as above
load_assembly 'IronRuby.Libraries', 'IronRuby.StandardLibrary.StringScanner'