I thought about that, but (if I'm not mistaken) it would mean anyone who used the program would have to have osascript installed -- since the thing already requires a mac and Illustrator CS2 (reducing the potential audience to about 100 people) I want to get rid of other dependancies. (Plus, I don't want to have to rewrite everything in Ruby.) Matt: Thanks! I'll see if I can figure that out (and if the program makes me a why-esque microcelebrity, I'll buy your book). On Dec 16, 4:48 pm, Bernd Haug <h... / berndhaug.net> wrote: > bluepho... / gmail.com <bluepho... / gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi -- I'm not a programmer by trade or inclination, so this might be a > > stupid question, but is there any way to add a ruby file to an > > applescript studio project?I don't know that, but did you consider going it the other way around > and calling the AppleScript from ruby? The command-line tool osascript > might interest you. > > lg, Bernd