From: Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
Date: 2003-05-08T22:25:57+09:00
Subject: Re: WIN32OLE problems

> puts ie.document
>
> but the last line did not work.

You have to poke around the documentation to sort of figure out the right
way to do things -- it's not always obvious:

S:\SF-scrapware\scrapware\cliecontroller>more test.rb
require 'win32ole'
@ie = WIN32OLE.new('InternetExplorer.Application')
@ie.visible = true
@ie.Navigate("http://www.ruby-lang.org")

S:\SF-scrapware\scrapware\cliecontroller>irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'test'
true
irb(main):002:0> @ie.document # ... is just another COM object
#<WIN32OLE:0x2ade498>
irb(main):003:0> @ie.document.documentElement.innerHtml
"<HEAD><TITLE>Ruby Home Page</TITLE>\r\n<META http-equiv=Content-Type
content=\"
text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\">\r\n<META content=\"tDiary 1.5.2\"
name=generato
...

@ie.document.documentElement is rather non-intuitive, IMO, but the MSDN docs
have it in there. I had to dig a little to find it.

Chris
http://clabs.org/blog