Question about ruby under windows

ruby-talk
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hello,

is it possible in a ruby script to make Internet Explorer and/or
Netscape open a URL?
thx

jf

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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}"

James Britt

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jf

3

Yes. There’s several ways to do this. See [ruby-talk:83076] and
[ruby-talk:83082].

-austin

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On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 00:58:10 +0900, MENON Jean-Francois wrote:

is it possible in a ruby script to make Internet Explorer and/or Netscape
open a URL? thx

–
austin ziegler * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.10.05
* 13.08.59

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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