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I have some simple sinatra apps that make use of the OTA COM dll for talking to Quality Center.

I want to move those sites into docker images, so I can host them on my docker server.

It occurred to me that theoretically I should be able to get this working with strategic use of wine.

Hint: I remember reading somewhere that to get Win32OLE working in Ruby from linux you can install the windows version of ruby using wine, then run your scripts through the windows version of ruby.

https://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/88576 says

i've managed this before. i installed the one-click installer under crossover office and the used that. another option is installing msys, compiling ruby under that, and then using that ruby. in any case you need to install/build another ruby under the crossover environment.

and later

In the end I installed office 2000 with Crossover, then I used the windows installer to install windows ruby into the same bottle as office. Finally I put the following bash script in my /usr/bin directory so I can run my ruby files with '#> wruby some_script.rb'

   ==/usr/bin/wruby
   #!/usr/bin/env ruby
   `/opt/cxofficebeta/bin/wine --bottle myBottle --cx-app ruby.exe #{ARGV.join(" ")}`

I know nothing about Wine or crossover or bottles(?), so I'm out of my depth.

How would I do this? What would a Dockerfile I could use as a base image look like?

Note: I found some docker images that claim to install wine (which may make a good starting point)

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=430194 talks about getting Win32::OLE working under ubuntu.

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Don't forget to use a USER xx in your Dockerfile as it is important to use a non privileged user in wine. You will find in registry.hub.docker.com several examples of wine with such a user.

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