RE: Generating / Parsing XLS Files

Nathaniel S. H. Brown
Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:34:41 -0000

I have found a pretty cool trick whereby you can basically output a table
with the columns identical to that you would want in Excel and name it with
the xls extension and MS Excel understands it perfectly (Tested with
MS-Excel 2003).

As for importing, not sure what libs exist for Ruby.

Warmest regards,
Nathan.

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> [mailto:rails-bounces-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org] On
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> To: rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org
> Subject: [Rails] Generating / Parsing XLS Files
>
> Hello,
> I was wondering if anyone knew of any plugins, patches, or
> practices for generating excel files.  Also if there is a way
> to parse and process uploaded xls files (this is probably
> much more complicated) I''m interested in discovering how to
> do that as well.  Thanks!
>
> - Jim