You can avoid changing the IronRuby app. Config by using a hack that I wrote called configuration_settings_hackery. Rb .
You can read about it on my blog. The blog post contains a link to a gist on github.
I would try creating a new AppDomain with AppDomainSetup. ConfigurationFile set to your special app. Config and then run your script in that AppDomain.
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