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Automating Excel with Ruby: One Cell, Multiple Fonts

over 3 years ago by David Mullet on Ruby on Windows.
As a loyal reader mentions in the comments to my article about Formatting Worksheets, he wanted to apply different formatting to separate words in a single...

Amen, Brother

over 3 years ago by David Mullet on Ruby on Windows.
In an article entitled "The Best Environment for Rails on Windows", Fabio Akita writes:The same goes for Windows: some Railers would say that you need to...

Automating Word with Ruby: Adding Bookmarks

over 3 years ago by David Mullet on Ruby on Windows.
Someone recently asked a question about using Ruby to add bookmarks to a Microsoft Word document. Here's a brief, but hopefully helpful, explanation.....

Scripted GUI Testing with Ruby

over 3 years ago by David Mullet on Ruby on Windows.
Anyone who reads this blog knows that I love Ruby, and I love Automation.Ian Dees is wise enough to realize that automation is not the Ultimate Solution...

Automating PowerPoint with Ruby

over 3 years ago by David Mullet on Ruby on Windows.
Here at Ruby on Windows, we've looked at how to automate a variety of applications using Ruby. One popular MS Office app that I haven't yet discussed is...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...