# Ruby equivalent to VB Syntax

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 1, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-equivalent-to-vb-syntax/133594 "2008-04-01T23:10:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sithadmin)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-equivalent-to-vb-syntax/133594/1 "2008-04-01T23:10:34Z")

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Hello,  
I am doing some CDO stuff with Ruby, but all the tutorials are in VB  
(lame!!) so I was wondering if anybody knew how to do something like  
this:

## VB:

’ Create/write a Microsoft Outlook item custom field  
objMessage.Fields.Add “”, ,  
“”, CdoPropSetID5

’ For Example:  
objMessage.Fields.Add “PersonRole”, vbString, “HR Lead”,  
“2903020000000000C000000000000046”

I’ve tried a few different ways, but nothing seems to work (I’m new to  
OOP…). I want to do something like:

## Ruby:

contact = contact\_folder.Messages.Add  
contact.Fields.FullName = “Test”

…or something

Any suggestions? All help is appreciated!

Thanks!

- Jeff M.

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**Author:** ![sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sithadmin)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-equivalent-to-vb-syntax/133594/2 "2008-04-01T23:23:48Z")

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Jeff M. wrote:  
| Any suggestions? All help is appreciated!  
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| Thanks!  
| - Jeff M.

> **[Ruby on Windows](http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/search/label/outlook)**
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> On using the Ruby programming language on the Microsoft Windows platform

That might help.

- – Phillip G.  
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**Author:** ![sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sithadmin)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-equivalent-to-vb-syntax/133594/3 "2008-04-01T23:34:07Z")

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Thanks for the link, but I am using CDO to enter Exchange directly  
instead of using Outlook’s MAPI. The contact creation methods are  
different…

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**Author:** ![sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sithadmin)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 3:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-equivalent-to-vb-syntax/133594/4 "2008-04-02T03:13:15Z")

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nevermind, I got it working 🙂