From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-02-24T10:39:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby plugin for spreadsheet?


On Feb 23, 2006, at 8:13 PM, Grant Schoep wrote:

> I know this may sound insane... but is there anything like a ruby  
> plugin
> for spreadsheets? Sadly, I guess I'd prefer Excel, but I use  
> OpenOffice
> alot too. basically, there is always text manipulation of fields I  
> need to
> do. Its a royal pain in most spreadsheet software. I usually end up
> exporting my data out to a csv, running some Ruby scripts on it,  
> and then
> importing it back. Trying to reduce the work here. Since...  
> exporting it
> out, running ruby scripts on it, then importing it back in is still  
> easier
> for me.
>

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/parseexcel/

Alternatively consider Win32OLE. The upside to ParseExcel is that you  
don't need Excel to use it.