I have used POI for quite a while, but have recently started working in Ruby. I was very interested to see the poi-ruby extension, but after trying it out, it appears that this library can only create Excel files, not read them.
It also appears that there has been no activity on this extension in 10 months since the initial commit. After reading the brief description of this extension available at http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/poi-ruby.html I noticed that providing the ability to READ excel files was listed as one of the TODOs. This item was also marked as being "easy". As I have a need for this capability, I would like to go ahead and implement this functionality. However, before I started, I was hoping to get some thoughts on exactly what would need to be wrapped to provide this capability. Based on my initial and very brief review, it appears that many of the classes under the org.apache.poi.poifs package would need to be wrapped as well as more of the org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel package and the org.apache.poi.hssf.eventusermodel package. Any suggestions or guidance would be appreciated before I get started. - Tim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta POI Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
