From: Masaki Suketa <masaki.suketa@...>
Date: 2002-03-03T19:15:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Win32OLE with Excel leaves Excel process hanging

Hello, Robert, Thank you for your report!
In message "Re: Using Win32OLE with Excel leaves Excel process hanging"
    on 02/03/02, "Robert C. Martin" <u.n.c.l.e.b.o.b.@.o.b.j.e.c.t.m.e.n.t.o.r.d.o.t.c.o.m> <unparsable-address> writes:

> irb(main):002:0*   require 'win32ole'
> true
> irb(main):003:0>   puts "Win32OLE: #{WIN32OLE::VERSION}"
> Win32OLE: 0.2.6
> nil
> irb(main):004:0>   puts "Ruby: #{RUBY_VERSION}(#{RUBY_RELEASE_DATE})"
> Ruby: 1.6.4(2001-06-04)

Win32OLE 0.2.6 is too old. Try the latest version 0.4.0.
My environment is Windows 2000, Excel 2000, Win32OLE 0.4.0
and your script works fine on my environment.
(I can stop excel.exe process after ruby.exe process terminated.)

  Regards,
  Masaki Suketa