Comments on: Creating Excel Documents with Ruby On Rails http://donttrustthisguy.com/2006/07/13/creating-excel-documents-with-ruby-on-rails/ Why not take my word for it? Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:55:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: nemeral http://donttrustthisguy.com/2006/07/13/creating-excel-documents-with-ruby-on-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-6382 nemeral Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:47:43 +0000 http://www.donttrustthisguy.com/2006/07/13/creating-excel-documents-with-ruby-on-rails/#comment-6382 ups.. sorry, this is the url<a href="http://github.com/xinuc/ekuseru/tree/master" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/xinuc/ekuseru/tree/master</a> ups.. sorry, this is the urlhttp://github.com/xinuc/ekuseru/tree/master

]]> By: nemeral http://donttrustthisguy.com/2006/07/13/creating-excel-documents-with-ruby-on-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-6381 nemeral Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:46:33 +0000 http://www.donttrustthisguy.com/2006/07/13/creating-excel-documents-with-ruby-on-rails/#comment-6381 just use this pluginhttp://github.com/xinuc/ekuseru/tree/masterit's much simple and pretty good. just use this pluginhttp://github.com/xinuc/ekuseru/tree/masterit’s much simple and pretty good.

]]> By: Banthi http://donttrustthisguy.com/2006/07/13/creating-excel-documents-with-ruby-on-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-5859 Banthi Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:24:05 +0000 http://www.donttrustthisguy.com/2006/07/13/creating-excel-documents-with-ruby-on-rails/#comment-5859 this is not the best method I am unable to format the excel sheet in way I want through this method,the best method is to use WIN32OLE gem to create the excel sheet. this is not the best method I am unable to format the excel sheet in way I want through this method,the best method is to use WIN32OLE gem to create the excel sheet.

]]> By: Fernando http://donttrustthisguy.com/2006/07/13/creating-excel-documents-with-ruby-on-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-5815 Fernando Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:47:04 +0000 http://www.donttrustthisguy.com/2006/07/13/creating-excel-documents-with-ruby-on-rails/#comment-5815 Hi,I want to know how can I write a date in date format not as String. Hi,I want to know how can I write a date in date format not as String.

]]> By: stj http://donttrustthisguy.com/2006/07/13/creating-excel-documents-with-ruby-on-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-5525 stj Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:25:39 +0000 http://www.donttrustthisguy.com/2006/07/13/creating-excel-documents-with-ruby-on-rails/#comment-5525 I was still not able to open a regular XLS spreadsheet. Still learning the ropes with Ruby and I did try and Google for the error, but no success. I am able to successfully create spreadsheets and write to them, I just cannot read from them. Any help would be appreciated. require 'rubygems' require 'spreadsheet/excel' include Spreadsheet data_root="c:/projects/" data_file='report.xls' file=data_root+data_file book = Spreadsheet.open file My error is: private method `open' called for Spreadsheet:Module (NoMethodError) I was still not able to open a regular XLS spreadsheet. Still learning the ropes with Ruby and I did try and Google for the error, but no success. I am able to successfully create spreadsheets and write to them, I just cannot read from them. Any help would be appreciated.

require ‘rubygems’
require ’spreadsheet/excel’
include Spreadsheet
data_root=”c:/projects/”
data_file=’report.xls’
file=data_root+data_file
book = Spreadsheet.open file

My error is:
private method `open’ called for Spreadsheet:Module (NoMethodError)

]]> By: engtech http://donttrustthisguy.com/2006/07/13/creating-excel-documents-with-ruby-on-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-4816 engtech Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:16:43 +0000 http://www.donttrustthisguy.com/2006/07/13/creating-excel-documents-with-ruby-on-rails/#comment-4816 @neha: this code uses Spreadsheet::Excel, not Parseexcel @jim: The link in your example goes to two different excel gems (I think it changed on you) gem install spreadsheet-excel require 'rubygems' require 'spreadsheet/excel' include Spreadsheet @neha: this code uses Spreadsheet::Excel, not Parseexcel

@jim: The link in your example goes to two different excel gems (I think it changed on you)

gem install spreadsheet-excel

require ‘rubygems’
require ’spreadsheet/excel’
include Spreadsheet

]]> By: Jim http://donttrustthisguy.com/2006/07/13/creating-excel-documents-with-ruby-on-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-4602 Jim Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:19:01 +0000 http://www.donttrustthisguy.com/2006/07/13/creating-excel-documents-with-ruby-on-rails/#comment-4602 It's difficult to diagnose your problem without more information. What does the system tell you in your logs when it fails? It’s difficult to diagnose your problem without more information. What does the system tell you in your logs when it fails?

]]> By: Neha http://donttrustthisguy.com/2006/07/13/creating-excel-documents-with-ruby-on-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-4601 Neha Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:37:41 +0000 http://www.donttrustthisguy.com/2006/07/13/creating-excel-documents-with-ruby-on-rails/#comment-4601 Hey, can u tell me what all dependencies to include as i am into a similar situation where i have to generate an excel file and save it somewhere and i dont want to use views for doing that. I tried your example and have also installed the gem parseexcel 0.5.2 but my application is failing at Excel.new('C:\example.xls') . Please help. Hey, can u tell me what all dependencies to include as i am into a similar situation where i have to generate an excel file and save it somewhere and i dont want to use views for doing that. I tried your example and have also installed the gem parseexcel 0.5.2 but my application is failing at Excel.new(‘C:\example.xls’) . Please help.

]]> By: Jim http://donttrustthisguy.com/2006/07/13/creating-excel-documents-with-ruby-on-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-4593 Jim Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:57:52 +0000 http://www.donttrustthisguy.com/2006/07/13/creating-excel-documents-with-ruby-on-rails/#comment-4593 Sorry the formatting engine I used to use stopped working when I upgraded to the latest version of wordpress :( Sorry the formatting engine I used to use stopped working when I upgraded to the latest version of wordpress :(

]]> By: CantReadGood http://donttrustthisguy.com/2006/07/13/creating-excel-documents-with-ruby-on-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-4592 CantReadGood Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:45:16 +0000 http://www.donttrustthisguy.com/2006/07/13/creating-excel-documents-with-ruby-on-rails/#comment-4592 what a messy code what a messy code

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