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xplatform script; Microsoft Office 2008
Authored by: kissedsmiley on Sun, Jan 27 2008 at 5:54AM PST

I wonder has anyone tried to convert VBA scripts into Ruby scripts, which then can be run on both platforms? I don't have any VBA macros for excel right now, but I read about replacing applescript with ruby and also see that a pc user has used ruby to script excel.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/lpt/a/6942
http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/2007/03/automating-excel-with-ruby.html