Hi, I¡Çm in the process of transferring a bunch of script from powershell to ruby to aid interoperability with an existing application and I¡Çm looking for two ruby equivalents to powershell commands: PSBASE is a view which returns the raw view of an object. getText returns the text between the current location and the specified location in the buffer. I use these a lot with WMI code in powershell, an example: $Var1 = path to WMI class or object $Var1.psbase.gettext(1) > wmi.xml This would give me pure XML of a WMI object. Any help greatly appreciated. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.