From: timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)
Date: 2002-04-27T14:00:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby as replacement for VB?

In article <3CC9EFC6.30947.2B4285A@localhost>, Euan Mee wrote:
>On 11 Apr 2002, at 1:03, Michael Davis wrote:
>>Robb Shecter wrote:
>>>Anybody have any suggestions for using Ruby in place of Visual
>>>Basic for doing database front ends?  My question isn't about
>>>the language per se, but rather whether all the parts exist yet
>>>for Ruby:
>>> 
>>>* Windows GUI toolkit that supports complex widgets like
>>>tables. * ADO or ODBC interface library. * Deployment scheme
>>>(some kind of compiler + packager, etc.)
[...]

I've only seen bits of this thread (I'm on the usenet side), so I don't know
whether this has already been answered, but for ADO you can use

require 'win32ole'
conn = WIN32OLE.new('ADODB.Connection')