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ADO, Excel, and Data Types

3 months ago by noreply@blogger.com (David Mullet) on Ruby on Windows.
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...

Automating Outlook with Ruby: Saving Mail Messages To Files

9 months ago by david.mullet@gmail.com (David Mullet) on Ruby on Windows.
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...

JRuby 1.6: Now With Win32OLE Goodness

~1 year ago by David Mullet on Ruby on Windows.
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...

Ruby on NetBeans: Here Comes the Cavalry

over 1 year ago by David Mullet on Ruby on Windows.
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...

NetBeans Drops Support for Ruby and Rails

over 1 year ago by David Mullet on Ruby on Windows.
The NetBeans team has, unfortunately, decided to remove Ruby and Rails support from the NetBeans IDE:After thorough consideration, we have taken the difficult...

Coming Soon: win32ole for JRuby

over 1 year ago by David Mullet on Ruby on Windows.
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...

New Ruby IDE Discussion Group

over 1 year ago by David Mullet on Ruby on Windows.
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...

Ruby & PowerPoint: Inserting HyperLinks

over 2 years ago by David Mullet on Ruby on Windows.
I've written previously about automating Microsoft PowerPoint with Ruby. Someone recently asked how to use Ruby code to insert hyperlinks into a PowerPoint...

Saving Microsoft Office Documents as PDFs

over 2 years ago by David Mullet on Ruby on Windows.
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...

Connecting to One of Many Open Documents

over 2 years ago by David Mullet on Ruby on Windows.
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...