Ruby on Windows

I've written before about using Ruby with Microsoft's ADO technology to query Excel workbooks as databases. This works well---mos...

I've talked in the past about managing mail messages in your Inbox , and about saving email attachments to your hard drive . A reader re...

JRuby 1.6 has just been released and, among the many new features, the JRuby installer for Windows now includes the win32ole library. This i...

As recently reported , the NetBeans IDE team has decided to drop support for Ruby (and Rails) from NetBeans 7.0. I have received many good s...

The NetBeans team has, unfortunately, decided to remove Ruby and Rails support from the NetBeans IDE: After thorough consideration, we have...

FYI: In a recent Ruby Forum thread , Charles Nutter wrote: FWIW, a win32ole library is in development and should be in JRuby for 1.6. This i...

FYI, Ed Howland has launched a new Ruby IDE discussion group : I set this group up to focus discussions about a community developed IDE writ...