From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-11-15T00:02:52+09:00
Subject: Re: win32ole: Pass by Reference

On Nov 14, 2007 1:10 PM, zxem <david.zxem@gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I am using Ruby 1.8.6 now and trying to so a pass by reference COM
> call through win32ole.
>
> The code looks like this: (I am not really calling Excel)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> excel = WIN32OLE.new("excel")
> excel.getCell(cell, column, row)
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> The first parameter I need to pass into getCell on line2 is a complex
> object(not String/double).
> Could anyone please teach me how to do this call in Ruby?

Look at 1.9 WIN32OLE documentation. The last paragraph discusses the
returning by reference (in short, you'll find the result in
WIN32OLE::ARGV).

There are some interesting threads about this in the archive. Look for
Masaki Suketa's posts (he is the author/maintainer).
One of them is this:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/232146

Jano