Re: Modifying an Excel file with Ruby

Dear Chris,


Hi,
Thanks, but i can't use OLE because this won't be hosted on windows.


the claim in the link I sent you was that they
do use Linux, rather than Windows, and still
got (some workaround access to) OLE to work ..
But I haven't tried this myself, so I wrote
"just a little googling" .... but I'd be interested
if you could post what solution you eventually go for.

Best regards,

Axel


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Datum: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:40:25 +0900
Von: Chris Hulbert <chris.hulbert@xxxxxxxxx>
An: ruby-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Betreff: Re: Modifying an Excel file with Ruby

just a little googling came up with this:

http://rails.co.za/articles/2006/12/16/excel-ole-automation-with-ruby-in-linux
HTH,
Axel

Hi,
Thanks, but i can't use OLE because this won't be hosted on windows.

I never tried this binding on POI Java library, but it could be useful
to you :
http://poi.apache.org/poi-ruby.html
Come

Fair enough, i assumed i'd have to use a java or perl or python library.
Its a pity, because an all-ruby solution keeps the cost of hosting down
:)

Any all-ruby solutions? I guess i *could* go to the effort of porting
the python pyExcelarator library to ruby, it's the closest to what i'm
after, but if there's an solution already out there, i'd like to hear
about it.

Cheers

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