# Create a new excel file **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [June 19, 2009, 7:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/create-a-new-excel-file/170572 "2009-06-19T07:02:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vetrivel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/dc4da7/32.png) [@vetrivel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vetrivel)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 7:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/create-a-new-excel-file/170572/1 "2009-06-19T07:02:45Z")
How to create a new excel file in ruby with examples . ---
**Author:** ![vetrivel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/dc4da7/32.png) [@vetrivel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vetrivel)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 8:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/create-a-new-excel-file/170572/2 "2009-06-19T08:23:10Z")
With your bare hands and a computer usually. Jayanth On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Vetrivel V. \< ---
**Author:** ![vetrivel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/dc4da7/32.png) [@vetrivel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vetrivel)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/create-a-new-excel-file/170572/3 "2009-06-19T19:35:58Z")
Vetrivel V. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > How to create a new excel file in ruby with examples . Depends what system you’re running. There’s one way on Windows and a different way on Mac OS X. m. ---
**Author:** ![vetrivel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/dc4da7/32.png) [@vetrivel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vetrivel)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/create-a-new-excel-file/170572/4 "2009-06-19T20:00:41Z")
Funny you mention this. I myself was trying to remember what I need to export to Excel and I was about to do the whole thing in CSV (might still do anyway, since Excel has support for it) when this came through. Thanks! On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Daniel B.[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > How to create a new excel file in ruby with examples . > > > Dan – Rilindo F. AOL Instant Messenger: rilindo Google Talk: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Web S.: [http://www.monzell.com](http://www.monzell.com) Primary: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Secondary: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid "Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. – Oscar Wilde ---
**Author:** ![vetrivel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/dc4da7/32.png) [@vetrivel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vetrivel)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/create-a-new-excel-file/170572/5 "2009-06-19T19:51:51Z")
> Depends what system you’re running. There’s one way on Windows and a > different way on Mac OS X. m. No, actually, the spreadsheet gem is cross-platform. gem install spreadsheet. Regards, Dan ---
**Author:** ![vetrivel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/dc4da7/32.png) [@vetrivel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vetrivel)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/create-a-new-excel-file/170572/6 "2009-06-19T22:46:32Z")
Daniel B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > Depends what system you’re running. There’s one way on Windows and a > > different way on Mac OS X. m. > > No, actually, the spreadsheet gem is cross-platform. Ooops, sorry about that. Okay, I guess what I meant is that there’s also at least one way on Mac OS X that doesn’t exist on Windows. On Mac OS X you could do it with rb-appscript; that’s what my book manuscript is about here: [http://www.apeth.com/ruby/10examples.html](http://www.apeth.com/ruby/10examples.html) The “Microsoft Excel” section on that page includes an example where we create a new Excel document, populate it with some data, and tell Excel to draw a chart. m.