similar to: can we use MS Word Template using Ruby

Hi all, I am trying to create word document in ruby using WIN32OLE. as.. require ''win32ole'' word = WIN32OLE.new("Word.Application") word.visible = true word.documents.add selection = word.selection word.Selection.TypeText "This is some text." ... .. . Can we set header and footer to document? I want to generate a document such that its header contains an

Hi all, I am newbie to ruby. I am creating web based data management tool using ruby on rails. I''ve done with interface and data management. Now I want to create a document from database. I want my database values should reflect in standard doc format, like a template. How can I do it in ruby. I am using MySQL-front as back-end. Please help me out. Thanks, -aveo -- Posted via

Hi, I am revising a paper that I am a co-author of. The figures are plots generated from R but at the moment I do not have the R code that generates them. As this is time critical I would like to slightly abuse the list by asking whether anyone knows how to extract from MS Word into a stand-alone graphics file a plot that was pasted into Word from R (probably as a Windows Metafile, but possibly

If you are running on Windows you can use create and read speadsheets using the ''win32ole'' require This sample should give you the basic idea ------ def export require ''win32ole'' @sort_by = ''last_name'' current_user = ''steve'' @records = Contact.find( :all, :conditions =>

Hi, I am using features of MS Word 2003 on Win XP in my rails application. The server has Win XP installed. I am able to open a document, save as HTML etc. if I run the app using mongrel_rails start ... on command prompt. I use the Win32OLE support for Ruby: doc = WIN32OLE.new(''Word.Application'') However, at the deployment site, I have configured the app to run as a Windows

Hi all, Please anybody tell me how to Convert integer to string in Ruby and concat it. Suppose I''ve a string "ABC" , I want to concat it with a number say "ABC12" . Please help me out. Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post

Greetings all. I have some controller code that uses win32ole (only available on windows). This code is now solid, and I''d now like to resume development on (any) other OS(grin). But alas, the controller bails because the OS specific library can''t be found. Can I conditionally specify action code compilation (and a require ''win32ole'') based on OS or

Hi, I''m new to ruby and rails and have some quick questions. We want to build an app that needs to: a. handle unicode b. handle, say someone submitting an MS word doc to the application, this being taken into the app and formatted out to nice sane HTML. I know I could do all this with perl, what I want to know is are there libraries that can help do this with ruby?

Greetings all. I have some controller code that uses win32ole (only available on windows). This code is now solid, and I''d now like to resume development on (any) other OS(grin). But alas, the controller bails because the OS specific library can''t be found. Can I conditionally specify action code compilation (and a require ''win32ole'') based on OS or

i was suffering from a massive memory leak in my application. after searching and testing for quite a while i finally found that it wasn''t my app that had a leak but the win32ole support that was used by the ADO driver in sqlserver adapter. the solution to fix the leak was to install ruby 1.8.5p52 or 1.8.6p36 but sadly as soon i install one of the fixed releases mongrel won''t

Hi all, This is a little off-topic, but it is on the general topic of getting data in R. I'm looking for a excel macro / vba script that will export all spreadsheets in a directory (with one file per tab) into csv. Does anyone have anything like this? Thanks, Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/

I am having a problem writing/saving to a SMB share with O2K3(Word). In WORD, if I File/SaveAs \\machine\share\fred.doc - the windows machine hangs completely (Explorer+Word immediately, then all other processes after a period of say 1min). Most other scenarios succeed: ok: File/SaveAs C:\fred.doc, then move to \\machine\share using explorer. ok: Outlook.PST file on \\machine\share can be written

I would like to plot two data sets (frequency (y-axis) of mean values for 0-1(x=axis)) on a single histogram for comparison. The hist() only allow the overlay of two histograms, and although barplot() allows beside=TRUE, it does not show frequency values (like hist) but rather all of the values. Is there any way that I can use the hist() to plot two data sets similar to the barplot(). Any help or

Feature Requests item #25792, was opened at 2009-05-05 17:29 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=414&aid=25792&group_id=85 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: Daniel Berger (djberg96) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: Create a pure Ruby win32-ole library Initial Comment: The current Win32OLE

I''m evaluating FXRuby for my application. So far everything is going pretty well. The news on the book is good, but I wish it were available today! First off, I''m not much of a Windows programmer (that''s what makes FXRuby so valuable to me). I''m using win32ole to interface to a custom ocx. Calling methods of the ocx works fine. Now I need to receive event

Hi all, I am newbie to Ruby and web programming as well. My show.rhtml is like, . .. ... <% require ''win32ole'' %> <% ie = WIN32OLE.new(''InternetExplorer.Application'') %> <% ie.visible = true %> <% ie.gohome %> ... .. . At server, when I access http://.../show it''ll open Iexplorer.exe as expected, but when I access same from

Dan/Park, What are your thoughts about implemented portion of the win32utils family that are written in ruby utilizing WIN32OLE. I have found myself writing decent amount of ruby code accessing the Windows Scripting Host (WSH) object models. I have a few scripts which could be added. I do not believe the functionality is currently available with win32utils: - map network drives -

Hello, I''m sending out an e-mail message to new users of my service. I want to send a particular link in this e-mail but I can''t figure out how to get a complete URL from the url_for method. Is there a way to do this without manually setting the host name? Thank you, -- Miles --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are

Hi, Does anyone know of a package that will help with generation of spreadsheets? (xls files, not csv) Thanks, Fredrik --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe

Hi there, I''m writing a port of Spring Webflow to Ruby on rails and I''ve encountered quite a lot of difficulty finding how to override the session[] method which is accessed via any ActionController. I have my pseudo-code ready to implement, but I can''t find the method declaration to copy it''s signature. Also, if anyone wants to collaborate on this particular