From: has <has.temp3@...>
Date: 2008-01-16T21:55:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby as application scripting language?

On 16 Jan, 07:18, Jari Williamsson
<jari.williams...@mailbox.swipnet.se> wrote:
> MohsinHijazee wrote:
> >    I've seen some applications which expose their object model for the
> > user to write program to automate some of the tasks he wishes to do.
> > One example is FontLab which allows you to use Python. Is that done
> > for the Ruby as well? What do you say?
>
> Sure, Sketchup (now owned by Google) for example use Ruby.

Many Mac and Windows applications also expose functionality via Apple
events/COM which can be accessed from Ruby via bridges such as rb-
appscript and Win32OLE.

HTH

has
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