[Wtr-general] Can I attach to an open Excel session?

[Chris McMahon]

>
> So your opinion about using Excel to write and launch Ruby code is falling
> on deaf ears here.


Please let us know how it comes out.  Ethan's recommendation of
http://wiki.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/show/ScriptingExcel is right on.

I admit to a bias:  I don't like Excel much, and the second article I ever
wrote for Better Software was a lightweight analysis, mostly based on my own
experience, of the many, many ways things can go horribly wrong when you use
Excel for things other than just pure Excel-only spreadsheet functions.

I still maintain that Excel is primarily intended as a repository for data,
and that the best automation design will (cautiously) use Excel in that
way.  I realize that Excel has tons of other features shoehorned into it,
but it still sounds sketchy from here.  For my own amusement awhile back, I
built a little Fit-like test automation framework based on Excel (so I'm not
completely ignorant on the subject), but I've never met anyone who wanted to
use it.

On the other hand, you sound like you know what you're doing, so I really am
interested in how it works out.  I might change my mind.
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