From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2005-11-19T22:52:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and WMI

timgerrlists wrote:
>I have been playing with ruby for a few weeks now to do windows
> administration.  I haved used ruby with WMI on harder scripts but cant
> figure out what to do here.  I want to query remote computers and see
> who is in the administratiors group.
>
> require 'win32ole'
>
> cpuName = '127.0.0.1'
> mgmt = WIN32OLE.connect("WinNT://#{cpuName}/Administrators,group")
> mgmt.InstancesOf("Members").each{|person| puts person.Name} <---- This
> fails
>
> The last line fails because I am not sure how to structure it.  Here is
> the equivelent VBscript
>
> Set objGroup = GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer &
> "/Administrators,group")
> For Each mem In objGroup.Members
>            WScript.echo vbTab & Right(mem.adsPath,Len(mem.adsPath) -
> 8)

The following are semantically equivalent. Choose the prettier of the two.

mgmt.Members.each {|person| puts person.AdsPath[8..-1] }

for person in mgmt.Members
  puts person.AdsPath[8..-1]
end

> I thank any help.

You're welcome.

Cheers,
Dave