# Lotus notes and Ruby

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/lotus-notes-and-ruby/114698>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 17, 2007, 1:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/lotus-notes-and-ruby/114698 "2007-09-17T13:24:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![ruby\_soho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/8e8cbc/32.png) [@ruby\_soho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ruby_soho)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 1:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/lotus-notes-and-ruby/114698/1 "2007-09-17T13:24:21Z")

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I saw in the post

[http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/171217](http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/171217)

that you can use win32ole to call Lotus Notes client, but does anybody  
know how to fill in the password?

Thanks  
Joyce

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**Author:** ![ruby\_soho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/8e8cbc/32.png) [@ruby\_soho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ruby_soho)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/lotus-notes-and-ruby/114698/2 "2007-09-17T13:25:24Z")

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ruby soho wrote:

> I saw in the post
> 
> [http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/171217](http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/171217)
> 
> that you can use win32ole to call Lotus Notes client, but does anybody  
> know how to fill in the password?
> 
> Thanks  
> Joyce

The Session.Initialize method takes an optional password. From Notes  
help:

Call notesSession.Initialize( [password$] )