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 for those of us that frequently use Ruby's win32ole module to automate Excel, Word, and a variety of other Windows applications and processes. Now you have the option of running your code on the JVM.
And running on the JVM opens up a world of possibilities. You could, for example, whip up a Swing GUI via Monkeybars, and use Rawr to package it up as an EXE file for ease of distribution.
Interested? Download JRuby 1.6 at jruby.org, take the win32ole module for a drive around the block, and let me know if you hit any potholes.
