Cannot connect to a running Excel instance

[Thomas008]

Doing
e1 = WIN32OLE.new('Excel.Application)
e2 = WIN32OLE.connect('Excel.Application')
one would expect that the command WIN32OLE#command connects to the already running Excel instance.
However, it creates a new Excel instance.
e1.Hwnd == e2.Hwnd
=> false
This behaviour is not desired for some applications.

[Thomas008]

I have published this issue in the jruby github already, since I did not know where the best place might be
(issue 5757).