Spreadsheet-Excel 0.3.5 released

Ruby
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== What is it?
Spreadsheet::Excel is a port of John McNamara’s Perl module
“Spreadsheet::WriteExcel”. It allows you to generate Microsoft Excel
compatible
spreadsheets (in Excel 95 format) on any platform. These spreadsheets
are
viewable with most other popular spreadsheet programs, including
Gnumeric.
Spreadsheet::Excel was originally written by Daniel J. Berger and is now
maintained by Hannes W…

== How to get it?
gem install spreadsheet-excel
(you may have to wait a couple of hours for the mirror-fairy to come
around
to your neighbourhood…)

== Changes: 0.3.5 - 18-Aug-2006

  • Instead of making OLEWriter inherit from IO, Spreadsheet::Excel now
    just
    delegates the IO method calls to an IO object reference in an instance
    variable. That way the developer can specify an IO or IO-like object
    to which
    OLEWriter will write. This allows developers to use StringIO objects
    (or any
    IO-like object).
    Thanks go to Daniel A. for the feature request, the patch, and
    most of
    this description.
  • Implemented a Feature Request by Randal S.: it is now possible to
    specify
    alignment and border as additional values in the configuration-hash
    passed to
    Format.new as if alignment= or border= were called.
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Has anyone tried to support strings longer than 255 characters (the cell
format is different from ordinary one) ?
I’ve looked into Perl’s port and I realized that more thorough knowledge
of excel binary format is required.

lopex

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On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:17:23PM +0900, Hannes W. wrote:

gem install spreadsheet-excel
IO-like object).
Thanks go to Daniel A. for the feature request, the patch, and most of
this description.

  • Implemented a Feature Request by Randal S.: it is now possible to
    specify
    alignment and border as additional values in the configuration-hash passed
    to
    Format.new as if alignment= or border= were called.
URL, anyone? :-)

Is it http://rubyforge.org/projects/spreadsheet/ ?
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On 8/21/06, Esteban Manchado Velázquez [email protected] wrote:

URL, anyone? :-)

Is it http://rubyforge.org/projects/spreadsheet/ ?

That’s the one, and also:
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/spreadsheet/
(And http://rubyspreadsheet.sourceforge.net - which is to be moved to
RubyForge)
Apologies for the omission.

Hannes