From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2005-10-17T06:48:22+09:00
Subject: Re: rbXPCOM ... no updates since 2001 ???

On 10/15/05, Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Does anybody have any ideas about this?  I'd like to see Ruby injected
> into more things like Mozilla/Firefox & OpenOffice.org
>
> Anyways, your feedback is appreciated.  Thanks.

I agree regarding Ruby and Mozilla/Firefox, and have had similar
thoughts myself. I think you are on the right track here, as a nice
Ruby XPCOM interface could give us the same features that Win32OLE
gives us in IE (can anyone say a multi-platform Firefox-based version
of Watir?) Plus general hackery and Firefox automation fun.

I would suggest contacting the author of rbXPCOM and if you don't
receive a response in a week, consider the project abandoned. In that
case I suggest reviving the project and continuing where the original
author left off. The license is a dual MPL/GPL, so this shouldn't be a
problem. If the original author surfaces and wishes to continue
development, we give control back. In the meantime the first priority
should be getting the project working with the latest Ruby and Mozilla
code, then the documentation should be worked on.

I'd be willing to lend a hand, and considering how popular Watir is,
others would probably join in too. I already have a very obvious (but
of course clever) name for the Firefox version of Watir...take a wild
guess!

Ryan