Calling a generic method from IronRuby

Question

Hi

How can I call a generic method (.NET 3.5 SP1) from IronRuby v0.9? Trying to do something as obj.method(:method_name).of(String).call seems not to work as "of" is an unknown method.

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

It works for me (I'm using 0.9.1):

IronRuby:

obj = ClassLibrary1::Class1.new
obj.method(:test).of(String).call("test")

C#:

namespace ClassLibrary1
{
    public class Class1
    {
     public string Test<T>(T param)
     {
      return param.ToString();
     }
    }
}

Answer 2

You can also use array indexers to pass generic arguments to methods, and you can execute a proc with array indexers as well, so Shay's example can look like this too:

obj.method(:test)[String]["test"]