# Ruby and dde

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-dde/197158>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 27, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-dde/197158 "2007-12-27T19:56:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Junkone)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-dde/197158/1 "2007-12-27T19:56:21Z")

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is there any ruby libraries or ole libriries for dde. am looking high  
and low and cannot find one with some examples. google returns so  
many  
matches but none with proper info. i am surprise not to find one  
proper as ruby seems to do everything in this world except eggs and  
toast.

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**Author:** ![Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Junkone)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 5:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-dde/197158/2 "2008-01-08T17:32:57Z")

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Junkone wrote:

> is there any ruby libraries or ole libriries for dde. am looking high  
> and low and cannot find one with some examples. google returns so  
> many  
> matches but none with proper info. i am surprise not to find one  
> proper as ruby seems to do everything in this world except eggs and  
> toast.

check out

extend Tk  
extend TkWinDDE

d = tk\_call(‘dde’, ‘request’, ‘TOS’, ‘DESCRIPTION’, x.opra)

where tos is the service,  
desription is my datalabel  
and x.opra is the key of the data for retrieval.