From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2003-10-06T02:08:47+09:00
Subject: Re: question about ruby under windows

MENON Jean-Francois wrote:
> hello,
> 
> is it possible in a ruby script to make Internet Explorer and/or
> Netscape open a URL?
> thx



Something like this should work:


require 'win32ole'
ie = WIN32OLE.new('InternetExplorer.Application')
ie.visible = true
ie.navigate( "http://www.ruby-doc.org" )


You can also use backticks to launch a browser as if from the command line:

exe = 'e:/Program Files/mozilla.org/Mozilla/mozilla.exe'
url = "http://www.ruby-doc.org"
`start "#{exe}" "#{url}"`



James Britt

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