From: Erik Meade <emeade@...>
Date: 2001-10-24T04:45:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23080] RE:  Home automation and Ruby (a repost)

I'm willing to take a look.  I'm new to ruby and know nothing
about homeseer.  So my "help" may not be much help.

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Erik Meade             emeade@objectmentor.com
Senior Consultant      Object Mentor, Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal E. Fulton [mailto:hal9000@hypermetrics.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 8:33 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: [ruby-talk:23008] Home automation and Ruby (a repost)
> 
> 
> 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
> 
>