# WIN32OLE seems to be broken?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32ole-seems-to-be-broken/79112>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 28, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32ole-seems-to-be-broken/79112 "2005-12-28T18:58:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32ole-seems-to-be-broken/79112/1 "2005-12-28T18:58:12Z")

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On my current install of ruby (ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32])  
whenever I try to use the win32ole module I can instantiate a com  
object, but when I try to call any method on the object it says ‘method  
missing’. I’ve verified the methods exist (and they are listed in  
ole\_methods).

Any ideas?

Thanks!  
Bman

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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32ole-seems-to-be-broken/79112/2 "2005-12-28T19:13:28Z")

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Bman wrote:

> Thanks!  
> Bman

Can you please post a snippet of the code that creates this behavior?