Error: <main>: uninitialized constant Excelx (NameError)

[fabian....@gmail.com]

Guys,

I'm new to roo and I'm tryong to automate some spreadsheet work, so I downloaded the roo gem as indicated in the website but I get this error:

C:/test.rb:15:in `<main>': uninitialized constant Excelx (NameError)

My code is simple:

require 'rubygems'

require 'roo'

s = Excelx.new('test.xlsx')      # creates an Openoffice Spreadsheet instance

s.default_sheet = 'Backup'

s.set_value(14, 4, 'TEST')

Strangely, this is fixed by adding include Roo after the require statements ...

Any idea?

Fabian

[Thomas Preymesser]

I think you are not using one of my releases. I'm currently not maintaining roo (see http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-roo/browse_thread/thread/d22e47d405c45c9).

-Thomas

[fabian....@gmail.com]

wow ... I just installed roo gem from the commandline as the website says. Where would I get the newest release from?

[Christian Southgate]

I fixed this problem by installing an older version: 1.10.1

The command to do this is: gem install roo -v 1.10.1

It'll automatically roll back any dependencies for you.

I'm using ruby 1.8.7 by the way.

[Sammy Larbi]

A better way would be to look at the now official docs, from what I can tell:

https://github.com/Empact/roo

Everything is now namespaced under the Roo module, so the example code should read:

  Roo::Excel.new

instead of just `Excel.new`

My guess is the current maintainer either doesn't have access to the old rubyforge website, or if they do, they didn't think about updating it.

Sam

[Chris Southgate]

I had no idea that this existed - thanks very much!

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