Comments on: Exporting data to CSV and Excel in your Rails apps /2009/09/exporting-data-to-csv-and-excel-in-your-rails-app/ Plataformatec's place to talk about Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Elixir, and software engineering Thu, 20 May 2010 22:08:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 By: Koen Van der Auwera /2009/09/exporting-data-to-csv-and-excel-in-your-rails-app/comment-page-1/#comment-283 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:01:33 +0000 /?p=288#comment-283 Some time ago I created a Rails plugin to generate xls documents by using rxls templates. It’s based on the Spreadsheet gem and works by adding just a simple template.

http://github.com/10to1/spreadsheet_on_rails

]]> By: Koen Van der Auwera /2009/09/exporting-data-to-csv-and-excel-in-your-rails-app/comment-page-1/#comment-831 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:01:00 +0000 /?p=288#comment-831 Some time ago I created a Rails plugin to generate xls documents by using rxls templates. It’s based on the Spreadsheet gem and works by adding just a simple template.

http://github.com/10to1/spreadsheet_on_rails

]]> By: George Guimarães /2009/09/exporting-data-to-csv-and-excel-in-your-rails-app/comment-page-1/#comment-279 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:16:50 +0000 /?p=288#comment-279 Thanks @Kieran, yet another solution to export to Excel. But you must admit that @Niko and @Chris solution is the most attractive so far. 🙂

Thanks for the excellent feedback guys, I will update the post!

]]> By: George Guimarães /2009/09/exporting-data-to-csv-and-excel-in-your-rails-app/comment-page-1/#comment-830 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:16:00 +0000 /?p=288#comment-830 Thanks @Kieran, yet another solution to export to Excel. But you must admit that @Niko and @Chris solution is the most attractive so far. 🙂

Thanks for the excellent feedback guys, I will update the post!

]]> By: iain /2009/09/exporting-data-to-csv-and-excel-in-your-rails-app/comment-page-1/#comment-276 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:58:52 +0000 /?p=288#comment-276 Beware though if you have to support decimal numbers. Some languages use a comma as decimal seperator (like Dutch) and others a dot (English). Depending on which language you export your csv/xls and which language Excel you have installed, you might end up with “7557” instead of “75.57”.

I heard, that the only way to get this right is to generate a real, binary, xls file, and not HTML-table or CSV.

Yeah, that’s really bad.

]]> By: iain /2009/09/exporting-data-to-csv-and-excel-in-your-rails-app/comment-page-1/#comment-829 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:58:00 +0000 /?p=288#comment-829 Beware though if you have to support decimal numbers. Some languages use a comma as decimal seperator (like Dutch) and others a dot (English). Depending on which language you export your csv/xls and which language Excel you have installed, you might end up with “7557” instead of “75.57”.

I heard, that the only way to get this right is to generate a real, binary, xls file, and not HTML-table or CSV.

Yeah, that’s really bad.

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