RUBY Project in West Bengal (India)

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Hello Vivek,
Thanks for your mail. Please send me the book. I wrote about the print outs in RUBY. I need something to make the print outs through the software developed in RUBY. But I think if I have to handle files to generate the output and the print the file then it will not be same in the various OS. I don’t know how to make prints through RUBY. Any other option to make print outs without file handling as I stated ( write the output in a file and then make print out of the file)?

Thanks
Sabyasachi Mustafi

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On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 Vivek Nallur wrote :

Hi Sabyasachi

There aren’t too many ruby programmers in India. Infact, the only one I
know of is Shashank (I don’t know where he’s based though) and I’m in
Mumbai.

I’m not sure what you mean by “make printouts in windows”. If you want to
write into MS Word and format the text, then you could use the WIN32OLE
module to control Word through Automation. Look up the Pickaxe book for
examples. Infact, the Pickaxe book is probably your best bet for starting
out programming in Ruby (including cgi programming with ruby). I’ve got
the book in .chm format and I could send it over, if you like.

cheers
Vivek

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Quoting Sabyasachi Mustafi sabymus@rediffmail.com:

   Thanks for your mail. Please send me the book. I wrote about the print

outs in RUBY. I need something to make the print outs through the software
developed in RUBY. But I think if I have to handle files to generate the
output and the print the file then it will not be same in the various OS. I
don’t know how to make prints through RUBY. Any other option to make print
outs without file handling as I stated ( write the output in a file and then
make print out of the file)?

Please note that the book in the Windows help format is a part of the Windows
Ruby installer by Pragmatic Programmers
(http://rubyinstaller.sourceforge.net).

I do not know about an easy way to print directly from Ruby but you can use HTML
for the intermediate file and a browser to print it if you need to support more
OSes.

Regards,

Dalibor

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