Spreadsheet
Getting Started
The Mailing List can be found here:
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyspreadsheet
The code can be found here:
https://github.com/zdavatz/spreadsheet
For Non-GPLv3 commercial licensing, please see:
XLS Binary Documentation
- https://github.com/zdavatz/spreadsheet/blob/master/Excel97-2007BinaryFileFormatSpecification.pdf
- https://github.com/zdavatz/spreadsheet/blob/master/excelfileformat.pdf
Description
The Spreadsheet Library is designed to read and write Spreadsheet Documents. As of version 0.6.0, only Microsoft Excel compatible spreadsheets are supported. Spreadsheet is a combination/complete rewrite of the Spreadsheet::Excel Library by Daniel J. Berger and the ParseExcel Library by Hannes Wyss. Spreadsheet can read, write and modify Spreadsheet Documents.
Notes from Users
Alfred: a@boxbot.org: I think it should be noted in the README file that the library doesn't recognize cell formats in Excel created documents, which results in Floats returned for any number.
What's new?
- Supported outline (grouping) functions
- Significantly improved memory-efficiency when reading large Excel Files
- Limited Spreadsheet modification support
- Improved handling of String Encodings
On the Roadmap
- Improved Format support/Styles
- Document Modification: Formats/Styles
- Formula Support
- Document Modification: Formulas
- Write-Support: BIFF5
- Remove backward compatibility code
Note: Spreadsheet supports Ruby 1.8.6, 1.8.7, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 2.0.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.2
You will get a deprecated warning about iconv when using spreadsheet with Ruby 1.9.3. So replacing iconv is on the Roadmap as well ;).
Dependencies
Examples
- Have a look at the GUIDE
- Also look at: https://gist.github.com/phollyer/1214475
Installation
Using RubyGems:
sudo gem install spreadsheet
If you don't like RubyGems, let me know which installation solution you prefer and I'll include it in the future.
If you can use 'rake' and 'hoe' library is also installed, you can build a gem package as follows:
rake gem
The gem package is built in pkg directory.
Testing
Bundler support added. Running tests:
bundle install- ./test/suite.rb
TravisCI
Authors
Original Code:
Spreadsheet::Excel: Copyright (c) 2005 by Daniel J. Berger (djberg96@gmail.com)
ParseExcel: Copyright (c) 2003 by Hannes Wyss (hannes.wyss@gmail.com)
New Code: Copyright (c) 2010 ywesee GmbH (mhatakeyama@ywesee.com, zdavatz@ywesee.com)
License
This library is distributed under the GPLv3. Please see the [LICENSE] (https://github.com/zdavatz/spreadsheet/blob/master/LICENSE.txt) file.