fast_excel VS caxlsx_rails

Compare fast_excel vs caxlsx_rails and see what are their differences.

caxlsx_rails

A Rails plugin to provide templates for the axlsx gem (by caxlsx)
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fast_excel caxlsx_rails
2 3
322 719
- 0.4%
6.4 5.6
4 months ago 4 months ago
C Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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fast_excel

Posts with mentions or reviews of fast_excel. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-21.
  • How to create easy Spreadsheets with FastExcel Gem
    3 projects | dev.to | 21 Sep 2021
    One day, one of my managers gave me the task of allowing a store to download its entire inventory in a spreadsheet, having multiple pages regarding the different categories the user may have. After doing some research on top popular gems used in Ruby on Rails for accomplishing this task, I ended up choosing FastExcel, that is based on Libxlsxwriter and wraps some methods around it, like formatting cells. Even though there were some other valid gems, like Caxlsx or Write_xlsx , FastExcel seemed the most lightweight gem as well as the one that offered the best performance as it is shown under its benchmarks ...
  • Please suggest a minimalistic excel generator gem
    1 project | /r/rails | 8 Jun 2021

caxlsx_rails

Posts with mentions or reviews of caxlsx_rails. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.
  • How would you setup a dummy rails application in your ruby gem for tests?
    2 projects | /r/ruby | 11 Dec 2023
    You said you've seen already a few approaches, but here you can check what I'm talking about: https://github.com/caxlsx/caxlsx_rails/ or https://github.com/simukappu/activity_notification
  • How to create easy Spreadsheets with FastExcel Gem
    3 projects | dev.to | 21 Sep 2021
    One day, one of my managers gave me the task of allowing a store to download its entire inventory in a spreadsheet, having multiple pages regarding the different categories the user may have. After doing some research on top popular gems used in Ruby on Rails for accomplishing this task, I ended up choosing FastExcel, that is based on Libxlsxwriter and wraps some methods around it, like formatting cells. Even though there were some other valid gems, like Caxlsx or Write_xlsx , FastExcel seemed the most lightweight gem as well as the one that offered the best performance as it is shown under its benchmarks ...
  • Export from database table to Excel Workbook. Level 1
    1 project | dev.to | 26 Aug 2021
    Use the gem caxlsx to download and format data into XLSX.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing fast_excel and caxlsx_rails you can also consider the following projects:

write_xlsx - Rubygem for create excel xlsx file

php-ext-xlswriter - 🚀 PHP Extension for creating and reader XLSX files.

AXLSX - xlsx generation with charts, images, automated column width, customizable styles and full schema validation. Axlsx excels at helping you generate beautiful Office Open XML Spreadsheet documents without having to understand the entire ECMA specification. Check out the README for some examples of how easy it is. Best of all, you can validate your xlsx file before serialization so you know for sure that anything generated is going to load on your client's machine.

xsv - High performance, lightweight .xlsx parser for Ruby that provides nothing a CSV parser wouldn't

libxlsxwriter - A C library for creating Excel XLSX files.

rubyXL - Ruby lib for reading/writing/modifying .xlsx and .xlsm files

Roo - Roo provides an interface to spreadsheets of several sorts.

Spreadsheet Architect - Spreadsheet Architect is a library that allows you to create XLSX, ODS, or CSV spreadsheets super easily from ActiveRecord relations, plain Ruby objects, or tabular data.

Spreadsheet - The Ruby Spreadsheet by ywesee GmbH

Docsplit - Break Apart Documents into Images, Text, Pages and PDFs

Fastsheet - Fast XLSX reader for ruby