From: "Hal E. Fulton" Date: 2001-10-31T16:37:11+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:23919] Re: Thanks & waxing lyrical ----- Original Message ----- From: Ralph Mason To: ruby-talk ML Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 11:50 PM Subject: [ruby-talk:23912] Thanks & waxing lyrical > Thanks to everybody for the answers to my simple questions. Thanks Matz for Ruby. > > The result - probably the most powerful 35 lines of code I have ever written!! I program that will spider a website and produce static pages from dynamic > ones, allowing you to template you website using php or asp and then generate static pages that have less server overhead and search engines like. If > anyone want it I can send it to them. (I am a ruby beginner so it's probably not pretty ;-) ). That's OK... and something that short can be posted. Don't worry, no one will flame you... ;) > There was a thread going here on why people like languages a couple of days ago. I think the time finally comes, you are in the right frame of mind, or > something tweaks your interest. I picked up ruby because it was mentioned on slashdot and then I started reading the book. In the last year I have 'played' > with perl & python but ruby I just liked, it was mostly familiar ( I mostly write C++ and COM and VB from front ends with some asp and VB script ) and so > powerful, and it introduced some really nice new things to play with. > > For my next project I am thinking of wrapping ruby objects to allow com invocation via IDispatch so you can call then from VB and asp etc, been thinking > about that for a week of so and am pretty sure I know a straight forward way to do it. Is anybody working on that? That's an interesting idea. I don't like VB but I do use it a little. (See my post a week or two ago about HomeSeer.) So being able to code in Ruby and call the objects from VB would be nice. In fact... wait a minute. Does ActiveScriptRuby make that possible? I'm ignorant of COM in general, but ASR is sort of a COM-Ruby bridge. Hal