From: Joel Pearson <lists@...>
Date: 2013-03-09T17:22:06+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyExcel class. Useful?

Thanks for the feedback. I'd certainly like to make the code concise and 
efficient. I'm trying to refactor regularly but I also add new options 
and variations whenever I think of them, so it's a bit of a struggle in 
both directions.

I've tried to use the "Write Once / DRY" approach, which is why I've 
started to put certain shared methods into the Helper module, but I'm 
still a n00b at this so I'm sure I'm making parts needlessly 
complicated.

Thanks for the name suggestions. I picked the name "RubyExcel" out of 
the air so I'm open to changing it. The reason I went with that name was 
because I'm trying to make something with the best of Excel's and Ruby's 
APIs together.

I'll have to learn how to use github now :) I'll weed out the bugs that 
I've noticed and then figure out how to upload there.

I wrote this because I work with browser-based reports which appear in 
HTML tables. I then have to extract the data into excel. This is a tool 
to handle the data in the interim, and to make all of the changes to the 
data in the memory, using an API which allows me to easily. read back 
what it's doing.
I'll add more detail on usage cases later.

Thanks for the advice, guys. I'll act on this and come back with some 
updates.

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