How to create easy Spreadsheets with FastExcel Gem

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  1. fast_excel

    Ultra Fast Excel Writer for Ruby

    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 ...

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  3. caxlsx_rails

    A Rails plugin to provide templates for the axlsx gem

    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 ...

  4. write_xlsx

    Rubygem for create excel xlsx file

    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 ...

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