Can't include System

Hello

Can anyone see why I can’t include System in this little script? If
I do
I get an exception ‘Converter is not a class (TypeError)’. If I skip
the
include and fully qualify the classes in that namespace this works
perfectly.

Thanks for your time and ideas,
Patrick

require ‘System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089’
require ‘Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word, Version=12.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c’

include System
include Microsoft::office::Interop::Word

class Converter
def Convert(inputDirectories, outputDirectory)
word = ApplicationClass.new

inputDirectories.each {|inputDirectory|
Directory.GetFiles(inputDirectory, ‘*.doc’).each { |file|
documentPath = System::IO::Path.Combine(outputDirectory,
Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(file) + “.xps”)

word.Documents.Open(file)
word.ActiveDocument.SaveAs(documentPath, WdSaveFormat.wdFormatXPS)
word.ActiveDocument.Close()

}

word.Quit()
}
end
end

Converter is a static class and those are mapped to modules

module Converter
def self.convert(inputDirectories, outputDirectory)

end
end

puts System::Converter.class #=> Module


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Converter is a *delegate *type in the System namespace (it comes from
mscorlib.dll, not System.dll). You should probably put your class in a
custom namespace like so:

module MyModule
class Converter

end
end

Hi

It is funny how obvious some of these things turn out to be.

Thanks,
Patrick

Actually, System::Converter is a generic type definition for a delegate
class. Generic type definitions are mapped to Ruby modules. These
modules are included in all instantiations of the generic type.

load_assembly ‘System’
=> true
System::Converter
=> System::Converter[TInput, TOutput]
module System::Converter
… def foo
… puts ‘foo’
… end
… end
=> nil
c = System::Converter[Fixnum, String].new { |i| i.to_s }
=> System.Converter`2[System.Int32,IronRuby.Builtins.MutableString]
c.foo
Foo
System::Converter[Array, Hash].ancestors
=> [System::Converter[Array, Hash], System::Converter[TInput, TOutput],
System::MulticastDelegate, System::Delegate, System::ICloneable,
System::Runtime::Serialization::ISerializable, Object, Kernel]

Tomas

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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patrick Brown
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 8:15 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] can’t include System

Hi

It is funny how obvious some of these things turn out to be.

Thanks,
Patrick
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Ivan Porto C.
<[email protected]mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Converter is a static class and those are mapped to modules

module Converter
def self.convert(inputDirectories, outputDirectory)

end
end

puts System::Converter.class #=> Module


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Blog: http://flanders.co.nzhttp://flanders.co.nz/
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On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Patrick Brown
<[email protected]mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Hello

Can anyone see why I can’t include System in this little script? If
I do I get an exception ‘Converter is not a class (TypeError)’. If I
skip the include and fully qualify the classes in that namespace this
works perfectly.

Thanks for your time and ideas,
Patrick

require ‘System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089’
require ‘Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word, Version=12.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c’

include System
include Microsoft::office::Interop::Word

class Converter
def Convert(inputDirectories, outputDirectory)
word = ApplicationClass.new

inputDirectories.each {|inputDirectory|
Directory.GetFiles(inputDirectory, ‘*.doc’).each { |file|
documentPath = System::IO::Path.Combine(outputDirectory,
Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(file) + “.xps”)

word.Documents.Open(file)
word.ActiveDocument.SaveAs(documentPath, WdSaveFormat.wdFormatXPS)
word.ActiveDocument.Close()

}

word.Quit()
}
end
end


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