With the announcement at PDC of Windows Azure, Microsoft started releasing more and more Ruby samples to allow developers accessing the new services. Actually at this year’s PDC I heard so much about Ruby and Ruby on Rails from the mouths of Microsoft employees, making me think that the “R” word is not forbidden anymore on the campus. We found a set of ruby samples for SQL Data Services (SDS), formerly called SSDS.  The source is hosted on? GitHub of course! The samples will be available as gems from RubyForge. The samples provided are:

sds-rest - A Ruby library to use the Microsoft SDS REST interface

sds-tasks - A sample application using the sds-rest libraries active-resource adapter

sds-radiant - A modified version of RadiantCMS that uses an experimental active_record adapter to talk to Microsoft SQL Data Services REST interface

.NET Services for Ruby is an open source software development kit (SDK) that helps Ruby programs communicate with Microsoft .NET Services using plain HTTP. Specifically the SDK includes set of REST libraries, tools, prescriptive patterns & guidance & sample applications that will enhance productivity for Ruby developers. Developers will be able to leverage the .NET Services to extend their Ruby applications by using the Microsoft cloud services platform to build, deploy and manage reliable, Internet-scale applications.

You can find more info here: http://www.dotnetservicesruby.com/

The Ruby SDK for .NET Services includes a set of libraries, tools, prescriptive guidance & sample applications that will enhance productivity for Ruby developers willing to use the .NET Services to extend their Ruby applications by using the Microsoft cloud services platform to build, deploy and manage reliable, Internet-scale applications.

This releases reaches Milestone 1 (Alpha Build) with the following features:

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

You can find more documentation in Ruby style here: http://www.dotnetservicesruby.com/documentation/