Bug #2618
Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) almost 12 years ago
=begin A user reported to Ruby-Talk and RubyInstaller mailing list some issues using ruby 1.9.1p243 (2009-07-16 revision 24175) [i386-mingw32] http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/browse_thread/thread/e5e47aabf09aff98 I could reproduce the issue across multiple versions of 1.9.1 and with close-up-to-date version of 1.9.2dev: http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/msg/dae727305e57ba6d Simple test script: http://pastie.org/786354 <pre><code> require 'win32ole' t = Thread.new do begin ie = WIN32OLE.new( "InternetExplorer.Application" ) ie.visible = true ie.navigate( "http://google.com" ) puts "OK" rescue Exception => e puts e.class puts e puts e.backtrace end end t.join </code></pre> Generates this: <pre> ruby 1.9.1p376 (2009-12-07 revision 26041) [i386-mingw32] WIN32OLERuntimeError failed to create WIN32OLE object from `InternetExplorer.Application' HRESULT error code:0x800401f0 CoInitialize has not been called. t.rb:5:in `initialize' t.rb:5:in `new' t.rb:5:in `block in <main>' ruby 1.9.1p376 (2009-12-07 revision 26041) [i386-mswin32] WIN32OLERuntimeError failed to create WIN32OLE object from `InternetExplorer.Application' HRESULT error code:0x800401f0 CoInitialize has not been called. t.rb:5:in `initialize' t.rb:5:in `new' t.rb:5:in `block in <main>' ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-01-02 trunk 26229) [i386-mingw32] WIN32OLERuntimeError failed to create WIN32OLE object from `InternetExplorer.Application' HRESULT error code:0x800401f0 CoInitialize has not been called. t.rb:5:in `initialize' t.rb:5:in `new' t.rb:5:in `block in <main>' </pre> Both mswin32 and mingw32 generates the same issue. =end