Ruby and COM(ActiveX)

[D'Andrew Thompson]

Does anyone know if there is a COM component for Ruby offering an
interface to COM (ActiveX) controls?

Something in the vein of http://www.python.org/windows/win32com/

Thanks, dave
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D'Andrew Thompson
http://dathompson.blogspot.com

[Wes Moxam]

If you install ruby using the windows installer it should already be
installed.

ex:

require 'win32ole'
excel = WIN32OLE.new('Excel.Application')
excel.visible = TRUE
workbook = excel.Workbooks.Add();
worksheet = workbook.Worksheets(1);
worksheet.Range('A1:D1').value = ['North','South','East','West'];

Documentation is here: http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/win32ole/rdoc/

-- Wes

[stevetuckner]

D'Andrew Thompson wrote:

>Does anyone know if there is a COM component for Ruby offering an
>interface to COM (ActiveX) controls?
>
>Something in the vein of http://www.python.org/windows/win32com/
>
>Thanks, dave
>
>

Its called Win32OLE and it is part of the standard windows distribution
(One Click Installer). See
http://www.rubycentral.com/book/lib_windows.html for some documentation
on it.

Steve Tuckner