From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-10-23T15:03:37+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23021] Re: Home automation and Ruby (a repost)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Mike Sassak <msassak@speakeasy.org>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 12:49 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:23020] Re: Home automation and Ruby (a repost)


> Now I really really really don't want this to come off as a snide
> slashdot-esque "But there's no Linux support!" remark, but... there's no
> Linux support! So, I _am_ interested (and not ignoring your posts) but
> I've no readily available windows box to test on... :(
> 
> -mike

Ha...  :)  No offense taken, Mike, I sympathize fully.

I like Unix, but I live with Windows. 

And I *know* there are Windows geeks in Rubyland... or 
is that Ruby geeks in Windowland?

Hal

 
> On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 21:32, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> > I posted this three days ago... forgive my persistence, 
> > but I can't believe *no one* is interested in this (in a 
> > forum with a high geek quotient such as this one).
> > 
> > Come on, guys... being able to say "Ruby runs my
> > house" is a whole new level of coolness...  ;)
> > 
> > Original post below.
> > 
> > Hal
> > 
> > ============================
> > Hello all...
> > 
> > I'm an enthusiast of a piece of home automation software
> > called HomeSeer (www.homeseer.com). Disclaimer: I'm
> > unrelated to them except as a customer.
> > 
> > By default it supports VBscript and Jscript... and people
> > have made Perl and Python work.
> > 
> > With arton's ActiveScriptRuby, I thought it should be 
> > possible to get Ruby to work in HS also.
> > 
> > Rich Helmke (a HomeSeer developer) told me it was
> > easy from his end to add Ruby support... he sent me a
> > patched version for me to try.
> > 
> > I installed ASR and ran my patched executable. But I 
> > couldn't run a Ruby program within it. No clue why.
> > 
> > arton (ASR author) was willing to help, but HS won't
> > run on a Japanese Windows system.
> > 
> > Rich @ HS was willing to help, but doesn't know Ruby.
> > 
> > Anyone interested in looking at this?
> > 
> > Hal
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>