From: Wayne Blair <wayne.blair@...>
Date: 2001-05-30T02:11:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15944] Re: Open a Web Browser in Windows


"Sloth" <mt_horeb@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:67abb823.0105290613.37f8679f@posting.google.com...
> Is anyone aware of a way to automatically open and redirect a web
> browser (under Win) using Ruby?  In Python, there is a webbrowser()
> method that allows a script to open a browser to a given location.
>
> Thanks in advance!  I'm trying to convert my Python code to Ruby just
> as fast as I can!!!
>
> Jeremy.

Yeah, it's real easy:  You can see Microsoft documentation for OLE commands
IWebBrowser2 - I tried quite a few and they all worked.  Here's an example
from
the pickaxe book:

require 'win32ole'

ie = WIN32OLE.new('InternetExplorer.Application')
ie.visible = true
ie.gohome


# to navigate, for example:  ie.navigate(url)