From: Gordon Thiesfeld <gthiesfeld@...>
Date: 2007-08-09T06:09:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Win32ole WMI fetch

>
> require 'win32ole'
> def fetch(where, what)
>   wmi = WIN32OLE.connect("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!//
> #{ARGV}")
>   qry = wmi.execquery("select * from win32_#{where}")
>   qry.each { |i| print "#{i}.#{what}" }
> end

You're using string interpolation, but that's not what's needed in
this case.  You actually need to call an ole method on an ole object.

Try this:
  qry.each { |i| print i.send(what) }

Or this:
    qry.each { |i| print i[what] }