X.G.1.2 Requirements

One summarizes here the requirements to use the VBA-ruby bridge:

• The bridge works on Windows platforms only.
• It must be used from VBA environment. Typically, it shall be used in excel.
• the “win32ole” ruby extension must be available.
• The dll library is linked to a peculiar version of ruby runtime machine. This means that this version of the runtime must be available, and the corresponding “bin” directory must be in the “PATH” environment variable. If someone wants to use another version of the ruby runtime machine, then the bridge must be recompiled.
• Some of the practical details for using the bridge are explained in the example in section X.G.2.

Note that the installation of FeResPost is not a requirement for the use of VBA-ruby bridge. Indeed the bridge is independent of FeResPost and can be used for any ruby post-processing.