From: Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date: 2005-10-21T06:13:41+09:00
Subject: Re: java.awt.Robot functionality in Ruby?

En r�ponse � ljr2600@gmail.com :
> I'm a solid Java programmer, who recently came across ruby and liked
> what I saw. So far, however, the lack of any centralized
> API/Libraries/Classes documentation, like that for Java, has been very
> frustrating.
> 
> Firstly, is there any centralized documentation for Ruby?
> 

ri is a documentation viewer that is shipped with Ruby itself. Just type 
ri SomeClass or ri SomeClass#some_method or ri SomeClass.some_method 
(for class methods). There are some graphical browsers too, although I 
don't know if there is one yet for Windows.

For a centralised place on the Internet, look no further than 
http://www.ruby-doc.org. Core API, Standard library, C API, it's all 
there, plus many links to various articles and tutorials about Ruby. The 
core and standard library documentation you find there is the one 
available for ri.

> Secondly, and more importantly, is there an windows32 API for Ruby that
> offers functionality similiar to java.awt.Robot? i.e. getPixel(),
> keyPress(), etc.
> 

I'm sorry I can't answer this one, as I just don't know.
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