From: planetthoughtful <planetthoughtful@...>
Date: 2007-03-17T18:50:10+09:00
Subject: Re: A couple of questions from a Ruby neophyte

On Mar 11, 9:18 am, "CParticle" <cparti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For what's its worth I think Ruby is the way to go.  It sounds like
> you might be using vbscript to access some Windows specific
> resources.  For my part about a year ago I switched away from VBscript
> because I wanted a more portable language.  After looking around I
> chose Ruby  I found the switch from vbscript fairly painless and
> straight forward.  I've used win32ole to access AciveDirectory
> resources.  I've also used the DBI module to connect to MSSQL and
> while as has already been said DBI not the best documented it was
> pretty simple even for a newbie like myself.  I think if you gave Ruby
> a try yo umight be pleasantly surprised by what you find.

Hi, so far I'm finding learning Ruby to be an interesting process. In
particular, I was looking for a scripting language that had better
error handling than VBScript - or, more to the point, any error
handling at all beyond 'On Error Resume Next'.

You correctly guessed that I'm automating things on a windows box, and
even only a week with Ruby has opened up a lot of interesting
possibilities. I haven't delved into win32ole yet, but I will at some
point. I also haven't had to look at the DBI module (I've used the
ODBC module and the MySQL module), but again I'm sure I will at some
point too.

All the best,

pt