I had some ideas that required some sort of necklace simulator through a web interface.  I didn’t have much experience programming anything complex in ActionScript, but I was sure that would be the way to go.  I have seen some amazing work done with Flash applications over the past few years and I had no doubt that Flash could handle such an application.  So I set out on one weekend to put together a quick prototype for my idea.

Here at Ruby on Windows, we've looked at how to automate a variety of applications using Ruby. One popular MS Office app that I haven't yet discussed is PowerPoint, Microsoft's ubiquitous presentation software. But, like other Office apps, PowerPoint exposes a full-featured object model for automating, so there's virtually nothing that you can't do with PowerPoint via Ruby code.

As usual, we'll be leveraging the win32ole library:

require 'win32ole'

Capistrano 2.5.0 is now available! You can read the full release announcement on the capify.org news blog.

I’ve had to rely at times on silence and on talking quick / Defending myself with nothing but my walking stick. —Buck65

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