Question

I am trying to use an excel file that has data such as first name, last name, hire date, department, etc. to populate fields in a web browser. Is there something on a mac that can do this.

I have seen something like:

require 'win32ole'
require 'excel'

The ‘win32ole’ gem only seems to work on Windows.
And I can’t find the ‘excel’ gem anywhere.
Anything known would be great.

Answer 1

You’re looking for the spreadsheet gem:

http://spreadsheet.rubyforge.org/

That can read Excel files.

Alternatively, you could convert your spreadsheets to CSV and then use the standard CSV libraries.