From: matt_neuburg@... (Matt Neuburg)
Date: 2009-06-20T05:45:06+09:00
Subject: Re: create a new excel file

Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Neuburg [mailto:matt_neuburg@tidbits.com]
> > Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 11:35 AM
> > To: ruby-talk ML
> > Subject: Re: create a new excel file
> > 
> > Vetrivel Vetrivel <vetrivel.bksys@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > How to create a new excel file in ruby with examples .
> > 
> > Depends what system you're running. There's one way on Windows and a
> > different way on Mac OS X. m.
> 
> No, actually, the spreadsheet gem is cross-platform.

Ooops, sorry about that. Okay, I guess what I meant is that there's also
at least one way on Mac OS X that doesn't exist on Windows. On Mac OS X
you could do it with rb-appscript; that's what my book manuscript is
about here:

http://www.apeth.com/ruby/10examples.html

The "Microsoft Excel" section on that page includes an example where we
create a new Excel document, populate it with some data, and tell Excel
to draw a chart. m.