From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-10-06T06:18:44+09:00
Subject: Re: question about ruby under windows


"James Britt" <jamesUNDERBARb@seemyemail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:3F80504F.2060002@seemyemail.com...
> 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}"`

On most systems even:

system( ENV["COMSPEC"], "/c", "start", "http://www.ruby-doc.org" )

which will launch the default browser.

    robert