The Ruby Way: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming, Second Edition

14.7. Libraries You Need to Know About

If you’re a Ruby programmer on Windows, the first package you absolutely need is by Daniel Berger, one of the foremost Ruby developers on those platforms. The win32-utils library is really a whole suite of small libraries. We can’t look in detail at all these, but we list them all here:

• win32-changenotify— For monitoring events related to files and directories

• win32-clipboard— For interacting with the Windows Clipboard

• win32-etc— Provides UNIX-like Etc functions for the Windows platform (such as getpwnam and getpwuid)

• win32-event— Interface to Windows Event objects

• win32-eventlog— Interface to the Windows Event Log

• win32-ipc— A base class for Windows synchronization objects (used by win32-event and others)

• win32-mmap ...