From: Reinhart Viane Date: 2010-08-25T18:14:46+09:00 Subject: check if Win32OLE still available ------=_NextPart_000_005E_01CB4446.B8BC9FC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In ruby i use these commands: application = WIN32OLE.new('MSProject.Application') application.visible = TRUE application.FileOpen(filepath) project = application.ActiveProject now if the user closes MS Project, any call to application.function returns: The RPC server is unavailable. Which off course, I think, is logic. How do I test if the application is still available? Regards and thx Reinhart ------=_NextPart_000_005E_01CB4446.B8BC9FC0--