Spreadsheet -avoid reading and writing from file how?

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Hi
I am using http://spreadsheet.rubyforge.org/ in my application…Usage
like

book = Spreadsheet::Workbook.new

book.write “#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/uploads/excel-file.xls”
render :file => “#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/uploads/excel-file.xls”
headers[‘Content-Type’] = “application/vnd.ms-excel”
headers[‘Content-Disposition’] = “attachment; filename=excel-file.xls”
headers[‘Cache-Control’] = ‘’

   In the above i am writing to a file in a location and then read.

My question is is there any method so that writing to a file can be
avoided …Because if there are some 100 requests the file will be
overwritten(Am I right?) or if give seperate names for the files the
upload folder will grow…So is there alternative and i can read the same
content directly

Thanks in advance
Sijo

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Sijo Kg wrote:

Hi
I am using http://spreadsheet.rubyforge.org/ in my application…Usage
like

book = Spreadsheet::Workbook.new

book.write “#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/uploads/excel-file.xls”
render :file => “#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/uploads/excel-file.xls”
headers[‘Content-Type’] = “application/vnd.ms-excel”
headers[‘Content-Disposition’] = “attachment; filename=excel-file.xls”
headers[‘Cache-Control’] = ‘’

   In the above i am writing to a file in a location and then read.

My question is is there any method so that writing to a file can be
avoided …Because if there are some 100 requests the file will be
overwritten(Am I right?) or if give seperate names for the files the
upload folder will grow…So is there alternative and i can read the same
content directly

I didn’t test this code, but looking at the api it looks like
Workbook#write will take an IO stream.

require ‘stringio’
require ‘spreadsheet’

book = Spreadsheet::Workbook.new
blob = StringIO.new(“”)
book.write blob

send_data blob

Be sure to checkout the link below on send_data, it will allow you to
transfer the stream of data without writing it to disk first.

Michael G.