Scripting Bridge equivalent to AppleScript "every"

tell application "Microsoft Entourage" to get every contact in address book 1

app("/Applications/Microsoft Office X/Microsoft Entourage").address_books[1].contacts.get

require 'appscript'
include Appscript
Entourage = app("Microsoft Entourage")
all_contacts = Entourage.address_books[1].contacts.get

Praful wrote:
Having browsed various group, I concluded that rb-appscript was my best bet. However, I've had an issue with it, which I've posted to the rb-appscript mailing list.

This works in rb-appscript with a small address book but not with a large one:

address book.contacts.get.findall do |c|
p "#{c.first_name.get} #{c.last_name.get}"
end

The error message is:
[...]
OSERROR: -1708

require 'appscript'
include Appscript
class AppData # disable caching feature
 def unpackobjectspecifier(desc)
 return Reference.new(self, @referencecodecs.fully_unpack_objectspecifier(desc))
 end
end
Entourage = app('Microsoft Entourage')
...

Running address_book.contacts.get as you suggested returns successfully for a small address book but not a large one (>5000 contacts). The error message is:


--------------------------
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rb-appscript-0.5.1/lib/appscript.rb:540:in ` sendcommand': CommandError (Appscript::CommandError)
OSERROR: -609
MESSAGE: Connection is invalid.
COMMAND: app("/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Microsoft Entourage").address_books.ID(403).contacts.get()
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rb-appscript-0.5.1/lib/appscript.rb:642:in `method_missing'
--------------------------

Perhaps it's timing out?

app("/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Microsoft Entourage").address_books.ID(403).contacts.get(:timeout => 10000)

Praful wrote:
As an aside, I had already used the ASDictionary tool (nice) but the ASTranslate did not work for me for Ruby.

Praful wrote:
I have only one version of Ruby unless ASTranslate is picking up Netbean's jRuby.

To perform a search I'm using

address book.contacts[its.firstname.eq("Fred")].get(:timeout => 50000).each do |c|....

1. How do I find out what other operators are valid as well as eq in the search? One example has ne (not equal). Are the others gt, lt, gte, lte?! And what about the boolean operators?

2. You provided the timeout argument. Is there a way of finding out the arguments? I've seen the help in the doc about introspection (properties, commands, parameters, etc) but can't work out how I would have found out the parameters to the get command.

app('Finder').help '-t make'

3. Related to 2 above: I originally used get.find_all because I saw an example. I thought I'd tried get.each. However, get.each works. How do I find out which commands and properties are available on the get command?