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ADO, Excel, and Data Types 4 Mar 2012 | 03:00 am
I've written before about using Ruby with Microsoft's ADO technology to query Excel workbooks as databases. This works well---most of the time. But you may occasionally bump into data type issues, wh...
Automating Outlook with Ruby: Saving Mail Messages To Files 3 Sep 2011 | 12:27 pm
I've talked in the past about managing mail messages in your Inbox, and about saving email attachments to your hard drive. A reader recently asked about saving a mail message as a file on your hard dr...
JRuby 1.6: Now With Win32OLE Goodness 16 Mar 2011 | 11:01 pm
JRuby 1.6 has just been released and, among the many new features, the JRuby installer for Windows now includes the win32ole library. This is good news for those of us that frequently use Ruby's win3...
Ruby on NetBeans: Here Comes the Cavalry 8 Feb 2011 | 02:49 am
As recently reported, the NetBeans IDE team has decided to drop support for Ruby (and Rails) from NetBeans 7.0. I have received many good suggestions from readers, with RedCar and RubyMine getting a ...
NetBeans Drops Support for Ruby and Rails 28 Jan 2011 | 02:27 am
The NetBeans team has, unfortunately, decided to remove Ruby and Rails support from the NetBeans IDE: After thorough consideration, we have taken the difficult step to discontinue support for Ruby on...
Coming Soon: win32ole for JRuby 27 Sep 2010 | 10:48 am
FYI: In a recent Ruby Forum thread, Charles Nutter wrote: FWIW, a win32ole library is in development and should be in JRuby for 1.6. This is good news for those of us who do a lot of work with the s...
New Ruby IDE Discussion Group 29 Aug 2010 | 07:03 am
FYI, Ed Howland has launched a new Ruby IDE discussion group: I set this group up to focus discussions about a community developed IDE written in Ruby (but not necessarily limited to writing code in ...
Ruby & PowerPoint: Inserting HyperLinks 11 Feb 2010 | 01:59 am
I've written previously about automating Microsoft PowerPoint with Ruby. Someone recently asked how to use Ruby code to insert hyperlinks into a PowerPoint slide. Let's take a look now at how this can...
Saving Microsoft Office Documents as PDFs 25 Jan 2010 | 01:55 am
A recent discussion in the Ruby Forum reminded me that it is possible with Microsoft Office 2007 applications to save a document in Adobe PDF format. In the Microsoft Word object model, you can call ...
Connecting to One of Many Open Documents 21 Jan 2010 | 01:57 am
If you've hung around here for a little while, then you probably already know that you can use the WIN32OLE.connect() method to connect to a running instance of applications like Microsoft Word. Just ...
