From: MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2002-08-11T03:06:54+09:00
Subject: Re: win32ole and excel

> I'm pretty ignorant of COM in general, but
> are you familiar with Ralph Mason's RubyCOM?


I'm not sure - I think I am.

Someone posted something that could create COM objects in Ruby last autumn
or so, and which also could call COM from Ruby. Because of my WINOLE32
problems I tested this and pointed out the same problem as with WINOLE32,
but there didn't seem to come any fixes so I reluctantly dropped the fact
that Ruby and COM was to coexist.

> I've used it in some situations to drive
> apps (with COM interfaces) via Ruby.


Yeah it works sometimes, but that isn't enough.

Now it seems a different story though. I really hope this is a general fix
which possible also applies to RubyCOM?

I don't know that status of RubyCOM but if it can implement vtable
interfaces, it would be really cool. As I recall it reflects Ruby into
IDispatch. This allows any Ruby object to be a COM object, which is really
cool. But it doesn't help you implement existing interfaces, which is really
a requirement for COM development.

Mikkel