From: Thiago Arrais <thiago.arrais@...>
Date: 2008-11-19T05:54:18+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Library for writing ODF files

Last week I needed to generate a report in the format of an ODF spreadsheet and
couldn't find a suitable Ruby library for outputing ODF. There is something
called RubyODF (at http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyodf/ ), but it is capable
only of reading documents, not writing them.

After much searching I ended up writing my own library. For lack of a better
name (and creativity), I called it rODF. It is not available as a gem yet, but
the code is available in GitHub at
http://github.com/thiagoarrais/rodf/tree/master

I did already use this library successfully to generate some spreadsheets and it
pretty much works (if you need to do exactly what I needed, anyway). The files
read correctly in OpenOffice.org and KOffice, but I don't think it is ready for
mass consumption yet.

I thought I would share this to find out if there is already another solution
for this problem in Ruby that I wasn't able to find or if I should go on with
this effort.

Cheers,

Thiago Arrais