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Asked: 2026-05-20T20:08:00+00:00

My web development experience is pretty much non-existent at this point. Therefore, some of

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My web development experience is pretty much non-existent at this point. Therefore, some of the things I’ll say may sound pretty stupid. So, consider yourselves warned.

I’m currently looking to build a social networking site and chose Ruby on Rails as a tool to make it happen. However, I’m pretty impressed with Silverlight’s capabilities and would love to create a pure Silverlight website. Since Silverlight is a Microsoft technology does it make any sense to combine it with Ruby on Rails? Should I just discard this as a stupid idea and use Microsoft stack for the project with no involvement of Ruby on Rails? If it does make any sense for me to use both Silverlight and Ruby on Rails how would I do this, meaning, how would Silverlight and Ruby on Rails interact?

Now, I know about Silverlight’s support of Ruby with IronRuby. However, I’m primarily looking at C# Silverlight. However, if IronRuby is indispensible in this equation, please, bring it up.

Thanks a lot in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could make the back-end on Ruby and expose RESTful services.

    Then you could build several clients (Silverlight, Flex, HTML5) that consume the REST Service.

    I would NOT start with IRONRuby to build a Silverlight application; it is much easier to find help when using C#.

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