What's the easiest way to export a CSV to Excel with Ruby?

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I'm using Ruby 1.9 for this. I need to convert Ruby arrays into a Excel spreadsheet document (xls).

Do you need your script to open excel and ask it to import the values, or are you just wanting to make a CSV file? — Andrew Grimm
– Andrew Grimm, Commented Jul 11, 2011 at 7:35

jafrog · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-11 06:55:49Z

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I use two gems to export to Excel-readable formats: Spreadsheet (can create/parse .xls) and FasterCSV (faster, but as far as I can remember doesn't work with .xls files)

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jasiek · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-11 10:19:57Z

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I've had excellent results with WriteExcel (which is a Ruby port of a Perl library of the same name).

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Fredrik Leijon · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-11 06:32:12Z

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Csv files would be the fastest if you just want to export values

answered Jul 11, 2011 at 6:32

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