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Ruby on Windows has the win32::ole library that allows Ruby to act as a COM client, similar to VBScript and other scripting languages (Python, Perl, etc. with win32 bindings). However, I am wondering if it is possible to create a COM server with Ruby that can be accessed from other clients. Python makes this possible, even simple, with its win32 package, but I have not been able to find any examples of this with Ruby.

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Well, there's always Python, which makes creating COM servers trivially easy. I'm giving up on Ruby for this purpose.

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Edit: Turns out that there is a way, as @Kevin Walzer points out in a followup comment. See below.

No.

The long answer is you can create a C# wrapper which delegates the work to IronRuby. See this question:

Can I compile IronRuby project in VS2010 into DLL/exe file?

This resource might help also.

https://github.com/rifraf/IronRubyEmbeddedApps

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    After posting here, I ran across the rubycom library, archived here: [link](http://www.reocities.com/masonralph/ruby.html) and with documentation here: [link](http://reocities.com/SiliconValley/park/6558/rubycomdoc.html). By way of comparison, how widely used is IronRuby vs. standard Ruby on Windows? – Kevin Walzer Sep 13 '11 at 14:17
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    Caveat: The download has a ten-year-old DLL but no source code. I'm wary of using a library with no source available. Hopefully the developer of the library still has his code archived somewhere. – Kevin Walzer Sep 14 '11 at 13:23