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Hopefully this should help?<br />
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<a href="http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.co.uk/2007/05/launching-apps-and-printing-docs-with.html" rel="ugc">http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.co.uk/2007/05/launching-apps-and-printing-docs-with.html</a>
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Hopefully this should help?

http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.co.uk/2007/05/launching-apps-and-printing-docs-with.html [http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.co.uk/2007/05/launching-apps-and-printing-docs-with.html]

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Cool<br />
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Almost have it<br />
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what do I have to install to get this solved ?<br />
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C:/Users/davidbr2/Rubymine<wbr />Projects/e<wbr />xample_rea<wbr />d_file2arr<wbr />ay/maine.r<wbr />b:24:in `&lt;class:MAINE&gt;': undefined local variable or method `shell' for MAINE:Class (NameError)<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;from C:/Users/davidbr2/Rubymine<wbr />Projects/e<wbr />xample_rea<wbr />d_file2arr<wbr />ay/maine.r<wbr />b:1:in `&lt;top (required)&gt;'<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;from -e:1:in `load'<br />
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class MAINE<br />
&nbsp; require 'win32ole'<br />
&nbsp;shell.ShellExecute('excel.<wbr />exe', '', '', 'open', 3)<br />
end
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Cool

Almost have it

what do I have to install to get this solved ?

C:/Users/davidbr2/RubymineProjects/example_read_file2array/maine.rb:24:in `<class:MAINE>': undefined local variable or method `shell' for MAINE:Class (NameError)
      from C:/Users/davidbr2/RubymineProjects/example_read_file2array/maine.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
      from -e:1:in `load'




class MAINE
  require 'win32ole'
 shell.ShellExecute('excel.exe', '', '', 'open', 3)
end

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Andrew <br />
<br />
you area a ruby god !!<br />
<br />
this really helps me out a lot.
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Andrew

you area a ruby god !!

this really helps me out a lot.

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I want to click on an icon and ruby produces a report. &nbsp;<br />
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the report if output to a text file which is then opened automatically by ...... ruby
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the report if output to a text file which is then opened automatically by ...... ruby

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