Below are code samples for reading current ooxml excel files using rubyxl roo creek and simple xlsx reader.
Ruby read excel file xlsx.
I also found a simple gem called simple xlsx reader that was easy to use and had everything i needed.
While it is capable of properly parsing the entire ooxml structure its current main emphasis is on reading files produced by ms excel making minor modifications to them and saving them to be opened again while preserving as much of the structure as possible.
Install as a gem.
Sheet1 book worksheet 0 sheet1 each do row puts row inspect.
Roo implements read access for all common spreadsheet types.
Roo helped with reading excel files and we can do this by.
If you need to read large excel files you may want to compare the performance between the different libraries.
End it is giving me the following.
Difference between read xlsx and read excel functions.
This project contains sample code for reading excel files with different ruby libraries xlsx file examples.
What i needed was a library that would read excel rows in streams.
This gem supports operating on xlsx files open xml format.
I have samples for reading xlsx files using each of the above libraries in the linked github project.
Excel 97 excel 2002 xml and excel 2003 xml formats when using the roo xls gem xls xml google spreadsheets with read write access when using roo google.
I created a quick and dirty benchmark comparing the four libraries that can read xlsx files in the above table.
Book spreadsheet open myexcel xls.
I am trying to read an excel spreadsheet file with ruby but it is not reading the content of the file.
The only difference is that when read excel is used excel format is called internally by the read excel function to determine if the path is xls or xlsx file from the file extension.
Some googling brought me to the ruby gems roo and write xlsx.
The result for reading the xlsx file with the two functions is same.