From: Ruby Tuesday <rubytuzdayz@...>
Date: 2004-03-30T00:29:28+09:00
Subject: Re: mod_ruby/eruby with IIS6?

Is there any good Ruby example that manipulate any Office Docoments,
especially the Access database?

As, I have an Access Image Database, I'd like to be able to get the
information from Access(using Ruby), and manipulate them(e.g, resize the
image) and then put them in a nice form in a Word Document. Thanks

"anon luker" <hatespyware@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Ruby Tuesdays" <NoSpamPlease_rubytuzdaiz@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > It works! Is there any good example using Ruby to manipulate some MS
Office
> > Apps e.g: put data from/to Word to/from Access? Thanks.
>
> Sure - that is just win32ole.  OLE automation works the same whether
> you have the WSH bridge or not.  The difference between automation and
> WSH integration is akin to the difference between extension and
> embedding - the benefit of the WSH bridge is that it allows you to
> "embed" Ruby code inside apps that support the WSH (pretty much
> anything that lets you write macros in VBS).  For example, after
> installing Arton's package you can use <script language="RubyScript/>
> tags in HTML under ie to do some client-side scripting in Ruby instead
> of Javascript (eat your heart out, Mozilla).
>
> > Just curious, if I have already have standard mswin32 distribution
> > installed, can I just add/install wsh bridge(as you mentioned) and
register
> > it in the registry ? Thanks
>
> I will have to refer you to Arton for specifics on this - I do not
> really know what kind of coupling may exist.  You can certainly
> install multiple independent binary distributions on the same machine,
> though.