ruby-wmi
    by Gordon Thiesfeld
    http://ruby-wmi.rubyforge.org/
    gthiesfeld@gmail.com

== DESCRIPTION:

  ruby-wmi is an ActiveRecord style interface for Microsoft's Windows
  Management Instrumentation provider.

  Many of the methods in WMI::Base are borrowed directly, or with some
  modification from ActiveRecord.
    http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html

  The major tool in this library is the #find method.  For more
  information, see WMI::Base.

  There is also a WMI.sublasses method included for reflection.

== SYNOPSIS:

  # The following code sample kills all processes of a given name
  # (in this case, Notepad), except the oldest.

    require 'ruby-wmi'

    procs = WMI::Win32_Process.find(:all,
                                    :conditions => { :name => 'Notepad.exe' }
                                   )
    morituri = procs.sort_by{|p| p.CreationDate } #those who are about to die
    morituri.shift
    morituri.each{|p| p.terminate }

== REQUIREMENTS:

    Windows 2000 or newer
    Ruby 1.8

== INSTALL:

  gem install ruby-wmi

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2007 Gordon Thiesfeld

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