# Hi folks

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hi-folks/169751>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 8, 2009, 10:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hi-folks/169751 "2009-06-08T10:15:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![anandh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@anandh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anandh)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 10:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hi-folks/169751/1 "2009-06-08T10:15:07Z")

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i m a beginner in ruby on rails… i need a complete a code for the  
following…

```
                              1. To parse a word document

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containing the students details…  
2.i ve to link these details in to  
database…

i need all the codings to be done in ruby on rails…

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**Author:** ![anandh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@anandh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anandh)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 10:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hi-folks/169751/2 "2009-06-08T10:46:16Z")

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I may not fully understand the question, but are you asking someone to  
supply the whole application for you? If not then a more focussed  
question indicating the particular detail that you need help with  
would be better.

I presume you have already worked through some tutorials such as the  
rails guides and used google to try and answer the questions yourself.

Colin

2009/6/8 anandh [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

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**Author:** ![anandh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@anandh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anandh)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 12:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hi-folks/169751/3 "2009-06-08T12:45:31Z")

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That’s not really what we do here…try

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**Author:** ![anandh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@anandh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anandh)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 12:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hi-folks/169751/4 "2009-06-08T12:40:49Z")

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thanks for your quick reply… see i have to parse a word document and  
i have to map those details to database in ROR…

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**Author:** ![anandh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@anandh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anandh)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 1:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hi-folks/169751/5 "2009-06-08T13:02:30Z")

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thanks for your reply… atleast just say me the overview or steps i  
have to follow in doing that application…

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**Author:** ![anandh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@anandh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anandh)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 1:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hi-folks/169751/6 "2009-06-08T13:38:57Z")

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Well Word doc’s are tricky, here’s some ideas from [SO.com](http://SO.com):

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/375861/how-to-parse-word-documents-with-ruby>

That will probably be the hardest part, after parsing it, it should be  
a pretty standard thing to take the data and put it in a DB, any  
decent Rails tutorial can teach you that.

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**Author:** ![anandh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@anandh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anandh)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 9:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hi-folks/169751/7 "2009-06-11T09:33:04Z")

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thanks actually for referring that link… i want some more details  
regarding that…