From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2008-03-05T06:22:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Managing Windows from Linux via Ruby

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a reliable way to manage resources on Windows machines
>  from a Linux platform using Ruby?  I'm currently using win32api and win32ole
>  to create directories and set permissions on multiple remote Windows
>  machines but would like to migrate my application to a Linux platform.  I'm
>  also interacting with AD but that works fine with LDAP.
>
>  Anyone have any suggestions on how I could go about this, or is it not worth
>  my while?

One reasonably cheap way is to use win32-service to run a drb server
that calls your other windows libraries across the network from your
linux box. I've used this approach quite successfully, albeit for very
trivial tasks. I used rubyscript2exe and srvany.exe to make the
service, because i was unaware of win32-service at the time; if I had
to do it again I'd probably use the latter.

martin