[ANN] Spreadsheet-Excel 0.3.5 released

[Hannes Wyss]

== What is it?
Spreadsheet::Excel is a port of John McNamara's Perl module
"Spreadsheet::WriteExcel". It allows you to generate Microsoft Excel compatible
spreadsheets (in Excel 95 format) on *any* platform. These spreadsheets are
viewable with most other popular spreadsheet programs, including Gnumeric.
Spreadsheet::Excel was originally written by Daniel J. Berger and is now
maintained by Hannes Wyss.

== How to get it?
gem install spreadsheet-excel
(you may have to wait a couple of hours for the mirror-fairy to come around
to your neighbourhood..)

== Changes: 0.3.5 - 18-Aug-2006
* Instead of making OLEWriter inherit from IO, Spreadsheet::Excel now just
delegates the IO method calls to an IO object reference in an instance
variable. That way the developer can specify an IO or IO-like object to which
OLEWriter will write. This allows developers to use StringIO objects (or any
IO-like object).
Thanks go to Daniel Amelang for the feature request, the patch, and most of
this description.
* Implemented a Feature Request by Randal Santia: it is now possible to specify
alignment and border as additional values in the configuration-hash passed to
Format.new as if alignment= or border= were called.

 

[Marcin Mielżyński]

Has anyone tried to support strings longer than 255 characters (the cell
format is different from ordinary one) ?
I've looked into Perl's port and I realized that more thorough knowledge
of excel binary format is required.

lopex

 

[Esteban Manchado Velázquez]

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=3D=3D What is it?
Spreadsheet::Excel is a port of John McNamara's Perl module
"Spreadsheet::WriteExcel". It allows you to generate Microsoft Excel=20
compatible
spreadsheets (in Excel 95 format) on *any* platform. These spreadsheets a= re
viewable with most other popular spreadsheet programs, including Gnumeric.
Spreadsheet::Excel was originally written by Daniel J. Berger and is now
maintained by Hannes Wyss.
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gem install spreadsheet-excel
(you may have to wait a couple of hours for the mirror-fairy to come arou= nd
to your neighbourhood..)
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=3D=3D Changes: 0.3.5 - 18-Aug-2006
* Instead of making OLEWriter inherit from IO, Spreadsheet::Excel now just
delegates the IO method calls to an IO object reference in an instance
variable. That way the developer can specify an IO or IO-like object to= =20
which
OLEWriter will write. This allows developers to use StringIO objects (or= =20
any
IO-like object).
Thanks go to Daniel Amelang for the feature request, the patch, and most= of
this description.
* Implemented a Feature Request by Randal Santia: it is now possible to= =20
specify
alignment and border as additional values in the configuration-hash pass= ed=20
to
Format.new as if alignment=3D or border=3D were called.

URL, anyone?

Is it http://rubyforge.org/projects/spreadsheet/ ?

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[Hannes Wyss]

URL, anyone?

Is it http://rubyforge.org/projects/spreadsheet/ ?

That's the one, and also:
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/spreadsheet/
(And http://rubyspreadsheet.sourceforge.net - which is to be moved to RubyF=
orge)
Apologies for the omission.

Hannes