This seems pretty close to what I was planning on doing. Is there a reason why you haven't submitted your work as a patch to JRuby itself? I'm not exactly sure why MRI includes this stuff in the standard libraries, but since MRI does I would think JRuby should too.
Joe On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Brian <brian.p.mcdev...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Joseph, > Take a look at the win32ole project I started on > <http://github.com/bpmcd/win32ole>github.com/bpmcd/win32ole > > This is a similar effort to your proposition. > > > On Mar 3, 2010, at 9:47 AM, Joseph Athman <jjath...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I really didn't have a major reason for trying to implement this, I just > figured it is something JRuby should have since MRI has it. I'm also forced > to use windows on a regular basis so I have access to a machine to do the > developing on. > > In this JIRA ticket ( <http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-191> > http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-191) it talks about using the Jacob > library to implement this. I don't know enough about FFI to say whether > that would work or not. If using FFI would be better I would be more than > happy to try and learn how to use it. It seems like the lack of WIN32OLE > support has not really held anyone back so I figure it would be a good place > to learn since it obviously isn't a high priority. > > Joe > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Vladimir Sizikov < <vsizi...@gmail.com> > vsizi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Joseph, >> >> I might be *totally* off the base, so don't pay too much attention to >> what I'm going to say ;) >> >> Now that JRuby has great FFI support, my understanding is that one >> might implement WIN32OLE purely in ruby. >> Like, for example, we implement Win32API.rb (lib\ruby\1.8\Win32API.rb). >> >> Is there particular reason you're going to implement WIN32OLE in Java? >> >> Thanks, >> --Vladimir >> >> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Joseph Athman < <jjath...@gmail.com> >> jjath...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I've always wanted to contribute something to JRuby so I was looking >> through >> > JIRA and noticed that JRuby still does not have the WIN32OLE api, I >> thought >> > maybe that is something I could try and implement. I quickly discovered >> > that I'm not totally sure how to go about this though. I was trying to >> look >> > at some of the other ruby standard lib classes that have been created, >> but >> > I'm hoping I could get a little help here. My two main questions are >> about >> > the @JRubyMethod annotation and the actual method parameters. It seems >> like >> > some methods take a ThreadContext object while some don't. Take for >> example >> > this method from the WIN32OLE class: >> > >> > WIN32OLE.connect('Excel.Application') # => WIN32OLE object which >> represents >> > running Excel. >> > >> > What would the method signature for that look like? I'm guessing this >> would >> > be a static Java method, but I'm not sure. Would there just be one >> > parameter in the Java code? Would it be an IRubyObject or would be be a >> > RubyString? I looked on the JRuby wiki but I didn't really see anything >> > about this. If there is more information out there you can just point >> me in >> > that direction. Thanks for any help. >> > >> > Joe >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: >> >> <http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email> >> http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email >> >> >> >
