# RejectConf RubyOSA hack **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [January 23, 2007, 12:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rejectconf-rubyosa-hack/83010 "2007-01-23T00:33:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naething)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 12:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rejectconf-rubyosa-hack/83010/1 "2007-01-23T00:33:19Z")
I remember vaguely from RejectConf someone hacked up something to position windows on OS X using Ruby OSA. Did this ever get released? Or at least, is that code available somewhere? If anyone remembers this and has some info, I’d be much obliged. I’ve been doing a lot of hacking on OS X lately rather than GNU/Linux, and the window manager is nice but it ain’t no DWM. Something like the hack from RejectConf might help that some 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naething)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 2:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rejectconf-rubyosa-hack/83010/2 "2007-01-23T02:00:30Z")
On Jan 22, 2007, at 3:32 PM, Gregory B. wrote: > Something like the hack from RejectConf might help that some 🙂 Greg- That was Sebastian D. who wrote that hack. I had a copy of it somewhere but I cannot find it right now. I do knwo sebastians blog though: [http://www.notsostupid.com/](http://www.notsostupid.com/) Maybe you can find him armed with that info 😉 Cheers- – Ezra Z. – Lead Rails Evangelist – removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid – Engine Y., Serious Rails Hosting – (866) 518-YARD (9273) ---
**Author:** ![naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naething)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 3:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rejectconf-rubyosa-hack/83010/3 "2007-01-23T03:25:37Z")
On 1/22/07, Ezra Z. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > ``` > That was Sebastian D. who wrote that hack. I had a copy of it > > ``` > > somewhere but I cannot find it right now. I do knwo sebastians blog > though: Oh, i’ll just hunt him down at a NYC.rb meeting or something. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naething)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 3:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rejectconf-rubyosa-hack/83010/4 "2007-01-23T03:23:37Z")
On 1/22/07, Ezra Z. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > Oh, i’ll just hunt him down at a NYC.rb meeting or something. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naething)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rejectconf-rubyosa-hack/83010/5 "2007-01-23T19:51:48Z")
On 1/23/07, has [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Gregory B. wrote: > > > I remember vaguely from RejectConf someone hacked up something to > > position windows on OS X using Ruby OSA. > > > > Did this ever get released? Or at least, is that code available somewhere? > > Dunno about RubyOSA, but here’s the ‘Stagger Finder Windows’ example > from rb-appscript which might give you some ideas: Thanks for the snippet and the advice. Not sure when I’ll get a chance to play with all of this, but this post will sure help. ---
**Author:** ![naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naething)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 11:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rejectconf-rubyosa-hack/83010/6 "2007-01-23T11:20:45Z")
Gregory B. wrote: > I remember vaguely from RejectConf someone hacked up something to > position windows on OS X using Ruby OSA. > > Did this ever get released? Or at least, is that code available somewhere? Dunno about RubyOSA, but here’s the ‘Stagger Finder Windows’ example from rb-appscript which might give you some ideas: ####### #!/usr/bin/env ruby # Rearranges Finder windows diagonally across screen with title bars # one above another. (Could easily be adapted to work with any # scriptable application that uses standard window class terminology.) require “appscript” include Appscript x, y = 0, 44 offset = 22 # Get list of window references, ignoring any minimised windows window\_list = app(‘Finder’).windows[its.collapsed.not].get # Move windows while preserving their original sizes window\_list.reverse.each do |window| x1, y1, x2, y2 = window.bounds.get window.bounds.set([x, y, x2 - x1 + x, y2 - y1 + y]) x += offset y += offset end ####### A couple of tips: - If writing general-purpose a script to work with multiple apps, note that the terminology tends to vary a bit: Carbon scriptable apps often use ‘collapsed’ while Cocoa ones use ‘minimized’. You could probably just try ‘minimized’ first, then try ‘collapsed’ if an ‘unknown property’ error occurs. If both fail, the app is probably non-scriptable, in which case it’ll either have to be ignored, or controlled via System Events’ GUI Scripting facilities. - If you’re writing a script to adjust multiple applications’ windows at once, some apps (e.g. Photoshop, InDesign, XCode) can have pretty huge terminologies, so there may a perceptible delay while appscript parses all of these these. Should you find the script lacks teh snappy because of this, you could avoid the overhead by using the lower-level AEM module, which uses raw Apple event codes, instead of the terminology-driven Appscript module. HTH has ---
**Author:** ![naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naething)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rejectconf-rubyosa-hack/83010/7 "2007-01-23T23:10:40Z")
Has anyone successfully created an Exchange mailbox using Ruby? I am stuck at a dead-end trying to do so. Thanks, Charles ---
**Author:** ![naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naething)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rejectconf-rubyosa-hack/83010/8 "2007-01-24T00:22:53Z")
On 1/23/07, Charles L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Has anyone successfully created an Exchange mailbox using Ruby? I am > stuck at a dead-end trying to do so. > > Thanks, > > Charles It looks like you could use the CDOEXM in Microsoft Exchange System Manager Tools. I googled this: [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327079](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327079), which is in VB, but could easily be translated to use WIN32OLE in Ruby. Another thing, slightly offtopic and not directly pertaining to this question, there seem to be many questions on this list about WIN32OLE/WIN32API that aren’t necessarily Ruby specific and would be essentially the same in Perl/Python/C#/VB/et, al. I don’t mind posts like this at all, but they might appear as noise to those who aren’t interested. Does anyone know of any programming language agnostic mailing lists for Windows OLE programming? Just a thought. Nate