December 2010
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Win32-Screenshot - From Cradle To ...
Win32-Screenshot is a library in Ruby for capturing screenshots on the Windows operating system. In this post i’m gonna write about the history of this gem since it just made it to the version 1.0.0 and i find that it deserves some extra attention due to the changes it has gone through.
Pre-Historic Times
The gem was originally created by Aslak Hellesøy, now a lead developer of the...
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Automating Windows and Their Controls With Ruby
Update: added part about handling popups.
How would you automate windows and their controls like button and text fields if you had to? How would you do that in Ruby? I guess you wouldn’t. At least not in any user-friendly way.
Until now. I’ve created a Ruby library called RAutomation which allows you to control windows, retrieve different kind of information about them, fill...