[ANN] spreadsheet-0.3.1

[Daniel Berger]

Hi all,

Version 0.3.1 of the spreadsheet package is out!

What is it?
A pure Ruby package for creating Excel (95) files on any platform. Also
readable by most spreadsheet programs, such as Gnumeric, etc.

Where is it?
You can get it on the RAA, or from the project page at
http://rubyspreadsheet.sf.net

Where's the gem?
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/rubyspreadsheet/spreadsheet-excel-0.3.1.gem?download

I don't know how to do a remote install of a gem that isn't on RubyForge. I
tried --source without luck. If someone knows how to do that, please let us
all know.

What happened to 0.3.0?
It didn't get along with rubygems. Otherwise, it's identical.

What's new?
Excel.new now accepts a string, fileno or IO object instead of just
filenames. This means you should be able to stream the output instead of being
limited to physical files.

Fixed the "black cells" bug.

Added the Worksheet#format_rectangle method.

Didn't you say there wouldn't be any more releases for the Excel 95 format?
Yeah. I lied. That's what bad people do.

Any word on an Excel 97 format release?
I'm working on it.

Enjoy!

Dan

[myha...@gmail.com]

[myha...@gmail.com]

when can it support reading from excel on non-windows system?
i can't find anything written by ruby about reading excel file from
google.
just find your project,but it only write the excel file util now.

[Berger, Daniel]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: myha...@gmail.com [mailto:myha...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 8:27 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: spreadsheet-0.3.1
>
>
> when can it support reading from excel on non-windows system?
> i can't find anything written by ruby about reading excel
> file from google. just find your project,but it only write
> the excel file util now. Daniel Berger wrote:

I have no plans to support reading Excel files. There's a Perl module
called Spreadsheet::ParseExcel that someone could port that would do
this.

Regards,

Dan

[Berger, Daniel]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Berger [mailto:Daniel...@qwest.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 11:56 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: [ANN] spreadsheet-0.3.1
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Version 0.3.1 of the spreadsheet package is out!

Short on the heels of 0.3.1, I've release 0.3.2 which includes an
important bug fix for MS Windows.

Regards,

Dan