write_xlsx VS fast_excel

Compare write_xlsx vs fast_excel and see what are their differences.

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write_xlsx fast_excel
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7.5 6.4
11 days ago 4 months ago
Ruby C
MIT License MIT License
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write_xlsx

Posts with mentions or reviews of write_xlsx. 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 ...

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing write_xlsx and fast_excel 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.

caxlsx_rails - A Rails plugin to provide templates for the axlsx gem

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

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

Spreadsheet - The Ruby Spreadsheet by ywesee GmbH

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

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

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.

libxlsxwriter - A C library for creating Excel XLSX files.

Creek - Ruby library for parsing large Excel files.