POI Lite is very simple Apache POI Wrapper for JRuby. This offers a simple interface to read Microsoft Excel.
POILite::Excel::open("testcase.xls") do |book| sheet1 = book.sheets[0] p sheet1.cells(0, 7) puts sheet1.used_range.map{ |row| row.map{|cell| (cell != nil) ? cell.to_s : "" }.join(",") }.join("\n") end
rake jar:package java -jar dist/poilite.jar