# It these possible in Rails?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/it-these-possible-in-rails/131113>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 6, 2008, 5:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/it-these-possible-in-rails/131113 "2008-03-06T05:42:26Z")\
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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, 5:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/it-these-possible-in-rails/131113/1 "2008-03-06T05:42:26Z")

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Can 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, 5:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/it-these-possible-in-rails/131113/2 "2008-03-06T05:55:36Z")

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Yes, but you’ll probably need to use native code to do so.  
This is really more of a question about Ruby than about Rails, so  
you’ll probably be better off asking the Ruby-Talk list, if the Google  
results don’t suffice to answer your further questions.

Regards,

David