# Is these possible with ruby?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-these-possible-with-ruby/131114>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 6, 2008, 6:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-these-possible-with-ruby/131114 "2008-03-06T06:07:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![ratnavel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@ratnavel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ratnavel)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 6:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-these-possible-with-ruby/131114/1 "2008-03-06T06:07:36Z")

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Can we do any of theses (from RoR):

access a COM object  
call loadlibrary  
receive and send(or post) windows messages  
access a native dll  
access a .net dll

Thanks,  
Ratnavel

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**Author:** ![ratnavel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@ratnavel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ratnavel)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 9:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-these-possible-with-ruby/131114/2 "2008-03-06T09:48:15Z")

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On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Ratnavel S.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Can we do any of theses (from RoR):
> 
> access a COM object  
> yes WIN32OLE  
> call loadlibrary  
> yes, DL/WIN32API  
> receive and send(or post) windows messages  
> I don’t know  
> access a native dll  
> yes, WIN32API  
> access a .net dll  
> I don’t know

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**Author:** ![ratnavel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@ratnavel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ratnavel)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 11:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-these-possible-with-ruby/131114/3 "2008-03-06T11:04:29Z")

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On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Jano S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> > access a .net dll  
> > I don’t know

I am pretty sure, that you can do that in IronRuby, but I haven’t tried  
it.