From: Gustav Paul <gustav@...>
Date: 2006-11-30T19:05:18+09:00
Subject: Re: MS Office and win32ole on Linux

Li Chen wrote:
> Gustav Paul wrote:
>   
>> Hey
>>
>> I just tried requiring 'win32ole' in my Linux console but it doesn't
>> seem to find it. I'm running MS Office under Linux with Crossover
>> Office, and was hoping I'd be able to do my MS Office development under
>> Linux from now on.
>>
>> Would getting the win32ole libraries help at all?
>>
>> Is there something small I'm missing or is this simply too ambitious?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Gustav Paul
>> gustav@rails.co.za
>>     
>
> As far as I know WIN32OLE is a built-in library in the Ruby. In order to 
> use it you need to put this line
>
> require 'wine32ole'
>
> near the top of your script.
>
> Li
>
>   
Hi

Thanks for the reply. I tried it in irb, but I get

irb(main):001:0> require 'win32ole'
LoadError: no such file to load -- win32ole
        from (irb):1:in `require'
        from (irb):1

I tried 'wine32ole' as well, same problem.
I noticed that on my Windows machine I've got
c:\ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\win32
c:\ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\win32ole

Directories, which I can't find under
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8

Might it be necessary to download the win32ole library?
Is there one for Linux?

Thanks, I'd really love to be able to develop from Linux, but if all
else fails, I suppose I'll make do with Windows :]

Gustav