From: Gilbo <mike@...>
Date: 2009-10-09T08:15:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Excel and colour question

On Oct 5, 1:07 pm, Axel Etzold <AEtz...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I need to be able to write a file in Excel format, where the
> fields have different background colours based on
> some condition which is evaluated based on the entries
> at runtime.
> I tried to look at the spreadsheet gem, but couldn't figure out how to do it. I'd much prefer if you could point me to a solution that
> is platform-independent (Excel files can be opened
> from OpenOffice etc.) and/or would work together with JRuby.
>
> Thank you very much !
>
> Best regards,
>
> Axel
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Axel,

have a look at surpass - it might be enough for what you want
(not sure about JRuby support though)

http://surpass.rubyforge.org/

HTH

Mike