From: timgerrlists <timgerrlists@...>
Date: 2005-11-21T22:12:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and WMI


Dave Burt wrote:
> 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

Dave thank you for the informaiton but I am getting some errors, "
Untitled2.rb:2: undefined local variable or method `cpuName' for
main:Object (NameError)" Not sure what to do here.

Thanks,
timgerr