Thanks to Wyss Clemens and Jonathan Conway for their suggestions !

Now, WIN32OLE will solve the access-to-com part of the equation, but what of
building COM obejcts with Ruby ?

I should point out that so far I have only been a "consumer"  to COM, and I
am not familiar with the innards.

Someone pointed out that it may not be possible to do COM objects with Ruby
because of its interpretive nature. I think it is possible because I have
done COMs with Visual Foxpro which is also interpreted.


FRF