Writing a large file with Spreadsheet: very slow, any HELP?

[Joe Peck]

Hey,

I'm using the Spreadsheet gem to generate Excel files. It's worked
great up until now.

I'm trying to put 25,000 rows in a sheet, then doing book.write to write
the file. It's really slow, like 3-4 minutes.

Is there a way to write groups of rows to a sheet at a time, or some
other way to speed up this process? Thanks in advance for any advice.
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[Joe Peck]

Joe Peck wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm using the Spreadsheet gem to generate Excel files. It's worked
> great up until now.
>
> I'm trying to put 25,000 rows in a sheet, then doing book.write to write
> the file. It's really slow, like 3-4 minutes.
>
> Is there a way to write groups of rows to a sheet at a time, or some
> other way to speed up this process? Thanks in advance for any advice.

Oh yeah, I'm using the latest Spreadsheet gem, 0.6.4.1 if that makes a
difference. Any thoughts on how to speed up the writing process?

[David Chua]

I hope you're sending those tasks to a background worker...

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[Joe Peck]

David Chua wrote:
> I hope you're sending those tasks to a background worker...

Not yet, but that's probably the route I'll be going.