Comments on: Export data to Excel (xls) in Ruby on Rails

By: Dhaval Parikh

Dhaval Parikh — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:54:46 +0000

Hi Jnanesh

Sorry for a late reply. I guess this method no longer works you may use the spreadsheet gem available on

http://spreadsheet.rubyforge.org/

Thanks

By: Jnanesh

Jnanesh — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:38:55 +0000

I am new to rails. Is this code generic or required some tweaking based on the applications. Because directly cut-paste is not working in case of my application.

Thanks,
Jnanesh

By: Lori M Olson

Lori M Olson — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:42:17 +0000

Note that this form of export to Excel will not work with versions of Excel including 2007 and newer. Excel now verifies that the content of the file matches with the file extension. It will throw up a scary security exception to your users if you do it this way.

By: Mark S

Mark S — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:39:33 +0000

Dhaval, sorry I don’t know if my first post went thru or not as I don’t yet see it above. But I am trying to implement this solution but don’t understand how to incorporate the “views” into my existing project. I have cut-and-pasted the controller into mine, but I don’t get how to reference the “export.html.erb” and the partial “_report.html.erb” into my app. Can you provide greater details??? My app uses “classmate” in place of “user”. TIA.

By: Mark S

Mark S — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:25:45 +0000

Dhaval, I am a Rails Newbie and do not understand the implementation of the “views”. The controller I think I got (I just cut and paste and changed where you had “user(s)” to “classmate(s)” to match my model. But I don’t get how you call the “export.html.erb” or where the partial “_report.html.erb” gets called.

Can you provide more details for implementing this solution??? TIA!

By: Doel

Doel — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:48:37 +0000

Hi, can i create a new worksheet on the same .xls file using this?

By: Nirav

Nirav — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:54:34 +0000

This is the most simplest way opening an html in excel. This method applies to all the scripting languages(asp, php, asp.net etc). You just need to add Content Type in the head section of html.

Also, all formatting applied to html applies to the excel file.

HEADING will appear same in excel as in IE.

By: Dhaval Parikh

Dhaval Parikh — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:57:38 +0000

Yes ofcourse u can do it…let me know what exactly ur looking for and I can help u out

By: joselo

joselo — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:31:54 +0000

Hi, this is a cool way to export to excel, But is posible to format column?? like Text columnn or Number Column?

thanks