From: Gustav Paul <gustav@...>
Date: 2006-11-30T19:34:16+09:00
Subject: Re: MS Office and win32ole on Linux


Hi
> The problem is, that win32ole is a windows extension, you have linux
> ruby and office running under wine. So you have to make them talk to
> each other. You need to somehow compile the win32ole extension under
> linux to use wine to talk to msoffice. I would say that:
>
> 1. it should be possible
> 2. many people will thank you for that ;-)
> 3. certainly it is not easy - you'd need to know a bit of ruby
> internals, a bit of wine, a bit of OLE and you'd need to write C code
> during the process.
>
Thanks, I can see why people would be thankful!
I'll give it a shot, can't be that difficult ;]

I had a vague inkling that it wouldn't be simple,
Thanks for the reply!

Gustav