Why Ruby stops working under cygwin

[Li Chen]

Hi all,

I want to call voice function using win32ole under cygwin. But Ruby
always stops working and a new window pops up the error message. I
wonder how to fix it.

Thanks,

Li

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'win32ole'
=> true
irb(main):002:0>
irb(main):003:0* v=WIN32OLE.new('SAPI.SpVoice')
=> #<WIN32OLE:0x7ffa1a0c>
irb(main):004:0> v.speak('hello')


Error message in the pop windows:
Ruby interpreter (CUI) 1.8.7.o [i386-cygwin] has stopped working.

 

[Aldric Giacomoni]

Hi all,

I want to call voice function using win32ole under cygwin. But Ruby
always stops working and a new window pops up the error message. I
wonder how to fix it.

Thanks,

Li

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'win32ole'
=> true
irb(main):002:0>
irb(main):003:0* v=WIN32OLE.new('SAPI.SpVoice')
=> #<WIN32OLE:0x7ffa1a0c>
irb(main):004:0> v.speak('hello')


Error message in the pop windows:
Ruby interpreter (CUI) 1.8.7.o [i386-cygwin] has stopped working.

Does Cygwin have proper sound drivers installed? Does it know how to
send the sound out?

 

[Luis Lavena]

Hi all,

I want to call voice function using win32ole under cygwin. But Ruby
always stops working and a new window pops up the error message. I
wonder how to fix it.

Thanks,

Li

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'win32ole'
=> true
irb(main):002:0>
irb(main):003:0*  v=WIN32OLE.new('SAPI.SpVoice')
=> #<WIN32OLE:0x7ffa1a0c>
irb(main):004:0> v.speak('hello')

Error message in the pop windows:
Ruby interpreter (CUI) 1.8.7.o [i386-cygwin] has stopped working.

From my experience Cygwin doens't play nice with Windows Native API.
For having Win32OLE working properly I suggest you use One-Click Ruby
Installer instead.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller

 

[Li Chen]

From my experience Cygwin doens't play nice with Windows Native API.
For having Win32OLE working properly I suggest you use One-Click Ruby
Installer instead.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller

Hi Luis,

I also have One-Click Ruby Installer on my PC. The problem is that
timeout doesn't work under PC. So I try Cygwin and I find it works
fine.


Li

 

[Luis Lavena]

Hi Luis,

I also have One-Click Ruby Installer on my PC. The problem is that
timeout doesn't work under PC.  So I try Cygwin  and I find it works
fine.

But then Win32OLE will not work properly under Cygwin. There is always
a catch.

 

[Li Chen]

But then Win32OLE will not work properly under Cygwin. There is always
a catch.

Here is my solution: When I use timeout library I use Ruby under cygwin.
When I use win32ole I use Ruby under vista. It is kind of weird but this
is how I let the work done.

Li