From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-02-23T23:49:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Overloading in ruby

On 2/23/07, Tomas Kejzlar <tomas.kejzlar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been doing some Ruby code interfacing with Windows COM objects and
> I've ran into this problem:
>
> I have a COM object method say object.Value(name) which - when i call it
> with appropriate "name" value returns some value.
>
> The problem is that the same is used (according to that COM lib
> documentation) for setting data to the object - i should write
> object.Value(name) = value and it should set the value.
>
> However I have not found a way to do this in Ruby - it gives me (and I
> can fully understand why) syntax error when I try to set data to the
> object.
>
> Does anybody know if this can be done using Ruby and possibly how?
>
> Thanks, Tom.

try:

object.Value[name] = value

or: have a look at WIN32OLE docs and see if setproperty or invoke
could do what you want

or: post the exact code possibly with the links to the lib documentation.

I'm not good enough to guess a general case, but I've been playing
with COM a bit so I might be able to guess the particular case.

J.