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This PR is the first half of the Rational/Complex item in #89; Complex follows in its own PR. Before starting, I checked master and the open PRs: no one has ported these. #119 only changes two error messages in rational.rb and complex.rb.

Before this PR, a Rational was a plain Numeric with @numerator and @denominator. rational.rb built one with allocate, __send__, two instance-variable writes and freeze, and every operation ran in Ruby.

Changes

• A CLR type for Rational. RubyRational (Src/Libraries/Builtins/RubyRational.cs) is the CLR type of the Rational class.
  • It holds two fields and is frozen from birth.
  • #instance_variables is now empty, as in MRI.
  • #numerator, #denominator, __new_internal__, and the __ir_set_parts__ that #marshal_load uses are now C#.
  • KernelOps.CreateCanonicalRational, which Time#subsec and similar callers use, now creates a RubyRational.
• Arithmetic in C#. +, -, *, /, quo, <=>, ==, #to_f and #hash follow rational.c's f_addsub/f_muldiv.
  • They use long arithmetic while the parts fit in Int32, and BigInteger beyond that.
  • Any other operand still goes back to rational.rb's __ir_num_coerce_bin__/__ir_num_coerce_cmp__, so ruby/spec sees the same sequence of calls.
• Kernel#Rational is C# for Integer arguments and for a Rational argument. MRI's arity (-1) and messages are kept. Everything else goes to rational.rb's __ir_Rational_slow__: Strings, Floats, #to_r, and the exception: keyword.
• Integer ** -n builds its Rational in C#. Result sizes too large to compute are still refused, as before.

Numbers

Warmed up, Release, net8.0, compared with CRuby 4.0:

	master	this PR	CRuby
Rational(1, 3)	540 ns	49 ns	81 ns
a + b	633 ns	68 ns	79 ns
a * b	511 ns	71 ns	60 ns
a / b	636 ns	74 ns	61 ns
a + 7	284 ns	58 ns	50 ns
a <=> b	141 ns	13 ns	12 ns
a.to_f	92 ns	13 ns	16 ns
a.hash	239 ns	30 ns	20 ns
3 ** -2	640 ns	124 ns	46 ns

Testing

• IronRuby.Tests passes with no failures. The new test Rational_CSharp1 uses CRuby's output as its expected output. It covers:
  • Integer, Float, Rational and Bignum operands;
  • coercion and division by zero;
  • NaN and hash keys;
  • Marshal;
  • Kernel#Rational, including its errors.
• ruby/spec with no failures: core/complex, float, numeric, marshal, time and kernel; library/bigdecimal, matrix and date; language.
• ruby/spec with known errors: core/rational (4), core/integer (15) and core/string (2) have the same counts as master. They come from mspec's fixnum_max()/fixnum_min() helper.

Known difference

CRuby computes 10 ** -(2**30); IronRuby raises "exponent is too large", as it already did before this PR, because BigInteger cannot hold that many bits.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Rational values now use a dedicated numeric implementation, with support for arithmetic, comparisons, conversion, hashing, and serialization.
  • Negative integer powers now return Rational values when supported, while powers of 1 and -1 retain integer results.
• Tests
  • Added runtime coverage for Rational operations, conversions, edge cases, and interactions with integers and serialization.

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Walkthrough

The change adds a field-backed C# RubyRational type and connects it to Ruby Rational construction and operations. It also returns Rational values for supported negative integer exponents and adds runtime tests for Rational behavior.

Changes: Rational support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Rational value representation and numeric operations Src/Libraries/Builtins/RubyRational.cs	Adds field-backed Rational values with canonicalization, arithmetic, comparison, conversion, and hashing.
Construction and Ruby integration Src/Libraries/Builtins/KernelOps.cs, Src/StdLib/ironruby/ironruby/rational.rb, Src/IronRuby.Tests/Runtime/MiscTests.cs, Src/IronRuby.Tests/RubyTests.cs	Routes eligible Rational construction through RubyRational, updates Ruby methods to use its accessors or C# implementations, and adds and registers runtime tests.
Negative integer exponentiation Src/Libraries/Extensions/ClrInteger.cs	Returns a RubyRational for supported negative integer exponents; other specified cases use the slow path.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Possibly related issues

• Performance gaps found while optimizing 2016-era code (not yet addressed) #89: The change handles negative integer exponents with Rational values, which is related to the issue’s Integer exponentiation performance objective. The available evidence does not establish that it resolves the issue.

Possibly related PRs

• Largo/ironruby#95: This PR changes Integer#pow and delegates negative exponents to **; this change updates ClrInteger.Power for negative exponents and adds Rational conversion paths.

Suggested reviewers: claude

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to c58fa

This change moves Rational to a C# implementation. No concrete failure was identified, and the only open suggestion is extra boundary-case test coverage.

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Src/IronRuby.Tests/Runtime/MiscTests.cs: 1

3179-3247: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add boundary cases for the long and BigInteger arithmetic switch.

RubyRational does arithmetic in long while both parts are in Int32 range (Small). It switches to BigInteger beyond that range. The only large operand in Rational_CSharp1 is 2**70. No case uses parts at or near the Int32 limits. A wrong boundary check would pass this test.

I traced AddSub, MulDiv, and Compare for parts at Int32.MinValue and Int32.MaxValue. Every intermediate value stays inside a long. A test should confirm this against CRuby and guard against future edits to Small.

Add cases such as:

• Rational(2**31 - 1, 2**31 - 2) + Rational(-2**31, 2**31 - 1)
• Rational(-2**31, 1) * Rational(-2**31, 1)
• Rational(2**31, 3) / Rational(-2**31, 7)
• Rational(-2**31, 2**31 - 1) <=> Rational(2**31 - 1, 2**31 - 2)
• Rational(2**31 - 1) + (2**31 - 1)
• Rational(2**31, 1) + 1, where the numerator is 2**31, just past Int32 (it is an Int64)

Also add cases for Integer ** negative in Integer_Power1:

• (-2**31) ** -1
• (-2**31) ** -2
• 2 ** -2147483648

The last case takes the PowerSlow path. Generate the expected output from CRuby, as the other tests do.

As per learnings: "verify test cases include invalid/out-of-range/boundary inputs, not just valid ones."

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Review comment at @Src/IronRuby.Tests/Runtime/MiscTests.cs around lines 3179 -
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Expand the `Rational_CSharp1` test with arithmetic, comparison, and
integer-operand cases at and just beyond the Int32 boundaries, covering the
`long`/`BigInteger` transition. Add the requested negative-exponent boundary
cases to `Integer_Power1` and record expected results consistent with CRuby,
preserving the existing test format.

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Review comments at @Src/IronRuby.Tests/Runtime/MiscTests.cs:
- Around line 3179-3247: Expand the `Rational_CSharp1` test with arithmetic,
comparison, and integer-operand cases at and just beyond the Int32 boundaries,
covering the `long`/`BigInteger` transition. Add the requested negative-exponent
boundary cases to `Integer_Power1` and record expected results consistent with
CRuby, preserving the existing test format.

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