Why Ruby stops working under cygwin

Ruby
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Hi all,

I want to call voice function using win32ole under cygwin. But Ruby
always stops working and a new window pops up the error message. I
wonder how to fix it.

Thanks,

Li

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require ‘win32ole’
=> true
irb(main):002:0>
irb(main):003:0* v=WIN32OLE.new(‘SAPI.SpVoice’)
=> #WIN32OLE:0x7ffa1a0c
irb(main):004:0> v.speak(‘hello’)

Error message in the pop windows:
Ruby interpreter (CUI) 1.8.7.o [i386-cygwin] has stopped working.

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On Dec 21, 2:47 pm, Li Chen [email protected] wrote:

$ irb
Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
From my experience Cygwin doens’t play nice with Windows Native API.
For having Win32OLE working properly I suggest you use One-Click Ruby
Installer instead.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller

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Luis L. wrote:

On Dec 21, 2:47�pm, Li Chen [email protected] wrote:

$ irb
Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
From my experience Cygwin doens’t play nice with Windows Native API.
For having Win32OLE working properly I suggest you use One-Click Ruby
Installer instead.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller

Hi Luis,

I also have One-Click Ruby Installer on my PC. The problem is that
timeout doesn’t work under PC. So I try Cygwin and I find it works
fine.

Li

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Luis L. wrote:

But then Win32OLE will not work properly under Cygwin. There is always
a catch.

Here is my solution: When I use timeout library I use Ruby under cygwin.
When I use win32ole I use Ruby under vista. It is kind of weird but this
is how I let the work done.

Li

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On Dec 22, 10:55 pm, Li Chen [email protected] wrote:

Hi Luis,

I also have One-Click Ruby Installer on my PC. The problem is that
timeout doesn’t work under PC. So I try Cygwin and I find it works
fine.

But then Win32OLE will not work properly under Cygwin. There is always
a catch.