Spreadsheet vs Roo

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Spreadsheet		Roo
	Project
1	Mentions	2
1,121	Stars	2,760
-	Growth	0.3%
5.2	Activity	4.1
3 months ago	Latest Commit	16 days ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	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.

Spreadsheet

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

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Spreadsheet yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Spreadsheet and Roo 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.

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

Creek - Ruby library for parsing large Excel files.

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.

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

write_xlsx - Rubygem for create excel xlsx file

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

Fastsheet - Fast XLSX reader for ruby