How to create easy Spreadsheets with FastExcel Gem

• fast_excel

  2 322 6.4 C

  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 ...

• caxlsx_rails

  3 719 5.6 Ruby

  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 ...

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• write_xlsx

  1 280 7.5 Ruby

  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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