Ruby 1.6.8 win32ole.so File?

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I have an old binary Ruby 1.6.8 running on my Windows 2000 development
laptop. It doesn't have a C/C++ compiler environment on it. The only
thing I need to complete this one project is a win32ole.so file that
would be compatible with it. Can anyone please e-mail me the file if
they have it on their Win32 machine? My setup has a mswin32-ruby16.dll
file to give you an idea what I'm looking for in terms of the
win32ole.so file. Many thanks!

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gregarican wrote:

[...] The only thing I need to complete this one project is a win32ole.so file that
would be compatible with it. Can anyone please e-mail me the file if
they have it on their Win32 machine? My setup has a mswin32-ruby16.dll
file to give you an idea what I'm looking for in terms of the
win32ole.so file. Many thanks!

It's in here:

ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mswin32/ext/win32ole-0.5.2-i586-mswin32-1.6.zip

daz

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daz wrote:

It's in here:

ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mswin32/ext/win32ole-0.5.2-...

daz

Thanks so much for pointing this out to me. Now my code should be a lot
nicer. I can use:

        winword=WIN32OLE.new('Word.Application')
  winword.Documents.Open("#{@myWordDocument}")
  winword.visible = true

As opposed to this:

        tempFolder=ENV['TEMP']
  launchFile=File.new("#{tempFolder}\\launchFile.bat", "w")
  word2k="c:\\program files\\microsoft office\\office\\winword.exe"
  wordXp="c:\\program files\\microsoft office\\office10\winword.exe"
  word2k3="c:\\program files\\microsoft office\\office11\winword.exe"
  wordExe=word2k if File.exist?(word2k)
  wordExe=wordXp if File.exist?(wordXp)
  wordExe=word2k3 if File.exist?(word2k3)
  launchFile.write("\"#{wordExe}\" \"#{@myWordDocument}\"\nexit\n")
  launchFile.close
  system("#{tempFolder}\\launchFile.bat")