SpreadsheetOnRails
==================

A Rails plugin to generate xls documents by using rxls templates.

Based on Defv's railsxls plugin (http://github.com/DefV/railsxls) without the Java part.

Dependencies
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ruby-ole
spreadsheet
iconv

Example
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Example spreadsheet usage as found here: http://github.com/jacobat/ruby-spreadsheet

-- in the view "index.xls.rxls

sheet = workbook.create_worksheet
sheet.name = "What's in a name"

sheet.row(0).concat %w{Name Country Acknowlegement}
sheet[1,0] = 'Japan'
row = sheet.row(1)
row.push 'Creator of Ruby'
row.unshift 'Yukihiro Matsumoto'
sheet.row(2).replace [ 'Daniel J. Berger', 'U.S.A.',
                        'Author of original code for Spreadsheet::Excel' ]
sheet.row(3).push 'Charles Lowe', 'Author of the ruby-ole Library'
sheet.row(3).insert 1, 'Unknown'
sheet.update_row 4, 'Hannes Wyss', 'Switzerland', 'Author'

sheet.row(0).height = 18

format = Spreadsheet::Format.new :color => :blue,
                                 :weight => :bold,
                                 :size => 18
sheet.row(0).default_format = format

bold = Spreadsheet::Format.new :weight => :bold
4.times do |x| sheet.row(x + 1).set_format(0, bold) end


-- in the controller

def index
  @lines = Line.find(:all)

  respond_to do |format|
    format.html # index.html.erb
    format.xml  { render :xml => @lines }
    format.xls  { render :action => "index", :layout => false }
  end
end


Copyright (c) 2009 10to1, released under the MIT license