Visual Studio
This will (hopefully) become the de-facto gem for inspecting Visual Studio installs and generating Visual Studio project files. It was created for Ryb, a project file generator similar to Premake.
Documentation is on the back-burner, so for now:
VisualStudio.available? # true
vs = VisualStudio.find :vs2015
vs.name.pretty # "Visual Studio 2015"
vs.name # "vs2015"
vs.version # "14.0"
vs.install # "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/"