From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-12-27T18:35:18+09:00
Subject: Re: convert excel spreadsheet to csv

bbiker wrote:
> On Dec 27, 1:29 am, Ratnavel Sundaramurthi <ratnave...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Try ruport.......
>>
>> its a report generating tool......
>> --
>> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> 
> Open the excel file and save it as a csv file.!!!
> 
> 
That's what I said ... you have to code it in Ruby, though ... doing it
with the mouse is cheating! :)

OK ... Ruby Quiz proposal ... what's the most complicated path you can
come up with to do this? Open the spreadsheet as a database in Rails?
Extra points for requiring a Windows machine, a Linux machine and a Mac.
Even more extra points for doing it totally without a Windows machine.
Anything goes -- OpenOffice bindings -- uploading it to Google Office --
 AJAX -- decoding the binary with "unpack" -- you name it.

;)
;)