# How to write data to Excel file format in Ruby on linux platform

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-write-data-to-excel-file-format-in-ruby-on-linux-platform/135458>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 22, 2008, 12:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-write-data-to-excel-file-format-in-ruby-on-linux-platform/135458 "2008-04-22T12:06:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 12:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-write-data-to-excel-file-format-in-ruby-on-linux-platform/135458/1 "2008-04-22T12:06:05Z")

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Hi All,

I want to create a excel sheet and write a data to it in Ruby langauge  
on a lunux platform. My current ruby script reads some information  
from YAML format and want to create one excel file as a result file on  
linux machine.

Anybody have already worked on similar code please help me out.

Thanks  
Vaibhav

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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 12:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-write-data-to-excel-file-format-in-ruby-on-linux-platform/135458/2 "2008-04-22T12:18:37Z")

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Vaibhav

check out the spreadsheet gem:  
gem install spreadsheet-excel

cheers  
Hannes