Roo vs Yomu

Roo

Roo provides an interface to spreadsheets of several sorts. (by roo-rb)

Spreadsheets and Documents

Source Code

Suggest alternative

Edit details

Yomu

Read text and metadata from files and documents (.doc, .docx, .pages, .odt, .rtf, .pdf) (by yomurb)

Spreadsheets and Documents

Source Code

github.com

Suggest alternative

Edit details

InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale

Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

www.influxdata.com

featured

WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS

The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

workos.com

featured

Roo		Yomu
	Project
2	Mentions	1
2,761	Stars	489
0.3%	Growth	0.2%
4.1	Activity	0.0
29 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Roo

Posts with mentions or reviews of Roo. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-14.

Question for WPS
3 projects | /r/ruby | 14 Nov 2022

For reading Excel files, we use roo. Our needs are more focused on simply extracting data from the files, so we don't need anything that can modify the files directly.
Massive SQL import from csv file, nulls, best practices.
2 projects | /r/ruby | 4 Jun 2021

Have you tried the Roo gem?

Yomu

Posts with mentions or reviews of Yomu. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

converting text files to plain text.
1 project | /r/ruby | 8 Jul 2023

Yomu sounds like what you're looking for. However, it depends on Apache Tika. It's more or less a wrapper. This is a big lift though, so I don't think you'll find a native Ruby library for something like this.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Roo and Yomu you can also consider the following projects:

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.

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

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

Spreadsheet - The Ruby Spreadsheet by ywesee GmbH

Creek - Ruby library for parsing large Excel files.

write_xlsx - Rubygem for create excel xlsx file

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.

docx - a ruby library/gem for interacting with .docx files

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