/poi_xls_rails

Simple template handler to render Excel spreadsheet templates using the Apache POI library under JRuby.

Primary LanguageRuby

Inspiration
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This gem is highly influenced by the Prawn template handler and several other Excel template handlers that make use of the Spreadsheet gem.

External Requirements
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To use this gem you will need to load the latest stable jar file of the Apache POI project from http://poi.apache.org/download.html.

You can do this simply with initializer such as:

require "#{Rails.root}/lib/poi-3.7-20101029.jar"

About the Apache POI Project
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Apache's POI library is an extensive collection of Java classes for manipulating various Microsoft Office file formats, including Excel, Word, and much more. For a full information see http://poi.apache.org/.