Some things have recently changed for those of us developing Rails applications in a Windows environment. First, InstantRails, an all-in-one package containing the complete Rails stack, has been superseded by BitNami RubyStack. Next, Windows machines now usually ship with Vista instead of XP. Finally, Rails 2.0 was released last week.

In my last post (A Hook into Stellent), I described how my organization was able to create a hook into Stellent that allows an external script to be executed upon conversion of native documents to perform transformations to each converted document. I also described the problem my organization was having with Stellent’s conversion of Microsoft Word tables of contents. I will describe our current solution to the Word tables of contents (TOC) conversion problem. I’m providing this solution to provide a specific example of how we are able to hook into Stellent, but what I describe here may soon be replaced by an improved solution.