From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2005-09-01T11:31:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and WSH How?

Zach Dennis:
> I guess I meant documentation for using WIN32OLE and WScript...etc... I 
> know that, documentation is one thing MS is good at... I didn't mean to 
> imply there wasn't documentation on WSH.

Well, you're right then. But it is pretty simple. So simple I'm going to 
document it right now (ruby-doc.org?).

This is WIN32OLE, from VB:

require 'win32ole'

# Set my_com_object = CreateObject("Library.Class")
my_com_object = WIN32OLE.new("Library.Class")

# Set my_com_object = GetObject("Library.Class")
my_com_object = WIN32OLE.connect("Library.Class")

# For Each com_object In com_collection_object
# '...
# Next
for com_object in com_collection_object
#...
end

# (Press F1 and read the help?)
com_object.ole_methods  #=> [Array, Of, All, Methods, And, Properties,
                        #=> Available, For, This, Object]

And the rest is straightforward. COM properties and methods become methods 
of the WIN32OLE object. If there's a Ruby name clash (e.g. a "class" 
property), you can either change the case of the method (COM's case 
insensitive) (com_object.Class or com_object.cLaSs) or use [] and []= 
(com_object['class'] is an lvar).

Cheers,
Dave