From: steve <zyzygy@...>
Date: 2009-10-09T09:35:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Excel and colour question

Gilbo wrote:
> 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

Wow! Surpass looks amazing!  I was thinking of using jruby to invoke the 
java package OpenXLS to satisfy a similar requirement, but if this works 
it will be much easier.

Steve