From: Craig Demyanovich <cdemyanovich@...>
Date: 2007-08-24T03:49:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby & Word 2007 help

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This problem has captured my attention. I downloaded and installed a trial
of Office 2007. Since the error was that the Documents.Open method was
missing, I focused my investigation around it. I determined that the method
exists and is available to call. Therefore, I decided to write a small
program that tries opening a document that is specified in a few different
ways. First, here's the program.

require 'win32ole'

word = WIN32OLE.new('Word.Application')
word.Visible = true
#doc = word.Documents.Open('C:/Documents and
Settings/Administrator/work/test.doc')
#doc = word.Documents.Open(File.expand_path(ARGV[0]))
doc = word.Documents.Open('C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\work\test.doc')
sleep 5 #seconds
word.Quit()

Now here's the output of the three runs that I did.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\work>ruby opendoc.rb
opendoc.rb:5:in `method_missing': Open (WIN32OLERuntimeError)
    OLE error code:800A1436 in Microsoft Word
 (C:\//Documents%20and%20Settings/Admin...)
    HRESULT error code:0x80020009
      Exception occurred.       from opendoc.rb:5

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\work>ruby opendoc.rb test.doc
opendoc.rb:6:in `method_missing': Open (WIN32OLERuntimeError)
    OLE error code:800A1436 in Microsoft Word
 (C:\//Documents%20and%20Settings/Admin...)
    HRESULT error code:0x80020009
      Exception occurred.       from opendoc.rb:6

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\work>ruby opendoc.rb

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\work>

Notice that the two times that the path was given with forward slashes, once
hard-coded and once from calling File.expand_path() on a file name passed to
the program, the program failed. However, when the path was given with
backslashes, it succeeded.

I'm not sure what to do next, since File.expand_path() returns a path with
forward slashes on Windows. Nevertheless, I hope that this information
allows the next step toward a solution to be taken.

Regards,
Craig

On 8/23/07, Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just a quick hint, since it's saved me a few times when the MSDN site
> didn't have good info, use the ole_get_methods, or its analog
> ole_methods.
> The help method, ole_method_help(), usually doesn't do much other than
> return the name of the method in my experience, but heck, try it :)
> maybe you'll have more luck.
>
> --Kyle
>
>

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