From: Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
Date: 2002-12-02T13:11:04+09:00
Subject: Re: WIN32OLE

> Is there any way to know the oleserver a WIN32OLE object is using? For
> example:
>
>   conn = WIN32OLE.new("ADODB.Connection")
>   p conn.class
>
> which will ouput WIN32OLE, but not ADODB.Connection. How can I tell in
> program what oleserver an ole object is using?

If you know a COM call which will return this info (maybe class does), but
there's a Ruby call by the same name getting in the way, you can do:

  conn.invoke("class")

which forces the call through to the COM object, bypassing any
coincidentally named native Ruby methods.

Chris