From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2006-10-04T00:23:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding the file version of a win32 dll in Ruby

On 10/3/06, Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/3/06, Phil Wilson <canuckdba@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there a way to determine the file version attribute in win32 using Ruby?
> > I would like to report and compare file versions between 2 different windows
> > computers using Ruby.  I am mainly concerned with dll, ocx and exe file
> > types.
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> > Phil

look at this thread as well:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/161050

this is the WINAPI funciton to call:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/resources/versioninformation/versioninformationreference/versioninformationfunctions/getfileversioninfo.asp