From: djberg96@... (Daniel Berger)
Date: 2004-06-03T11:33:38+09:00
Subject: Using Win32OLE, WMI and ExecMethod

Hi all,

Ruby 1.8.1
Windows 2000

I'm playing with WMI to control services via Ruby.  I can list
services easily enough with InstancesOf(), but how do I call methods
on a class?

I tried something like this, but this is clearly illegal.  Can someone
provide me with the right way to do what I'm trying to do here?

require "win32ole"
wmi = WIN32OLE.connect("winmgmts://")
wmi.ExecMethod("Win32_Service","StartService","ClipSrv") # Illegal

I've tried various connect strings and done some futzing, but no luck.
 Please help.  Thanks.

Dan