From: John Date: 2010-05-15T10:45:38+09:00 Subject: Re: Need a gem or code to retrieve file Summary information with Ruby / Windows # Ruby code to read Windows file summary information require 'win32ole' obj= WIN32OLE.new("Shell.Application") folder=obj.nameSpace("d:\\0-dwn") item = folder.items.item("test.doc") (0..99).each do |i| puts "#{i}-->"+folder.getDetailsOf(nil, {:iColumn => i }) +"-- >"+folder.getDetailsOf(item, {:iColumn => i }) end Output: 0-->Name-->test.doc 1-->Size-->20 KB 2-->Type-->Microsoft Word Document 3-->Date Modified-->5/14/2010 1:48 PM 4-->Date Created-->5/14/2010 11:09 AM 5-->Date Accessed-->5/14/2010 1:48 PM 6-->Attributes-->A 7-->Status-->Online 8-->Owner-->ACER1\john_s 9-->Author-->Au: John S 10-->Title-->Tit: test 11-->Subject-->Sj: Test file summary 12-->Category-->Cat:Test verification 13-->Pages-->1 14-->Comments-->Com: test file verification program 15-->Copyright--> 16-->Artist--> 17-->Album Title--> 18-->Year--> 19-->Track Number--> 20-->Genre--> 21-->Duration--> 22-->Bit Rate--> 23-->Protected--> 24-->Camera Model--> 25-->Date Picture Taken--> 26-->Dimensions--> 27-->--> 28-->--> 29-->Episode Name--> 30-->Program Description--> 31-->-->5/14/2010 10:41 AM 32-->Audio sample size--> 33-->Audio sample rate--> 34-->Channels--> 35-->Company--> 36-->Description--> 37-->File Version--> 38-->Product Name--> 39-->Product Version--> 40-->Keywords--> ::: :::