I'm not familiar with dhtmlx, but you can send_data the html table to an .xls file with the excel mime-type and Excel will read it in - formatting should stay intact - although I don't know what limitations on formatting may exist. Works with UTF-8 characters, too. OpenOffice will grok it - other spreadsheet apps don't seem to like it, though.
There's a spreadsheet gem that will give you more fine grained control (in exchange for more work) over the .xls file, and produces a legit .xls file, which matters if you want to support more spreadsheet programs than just Excel. I've also seen XML Doc approaches. Search to_xls and you should find a few different options. -- Chris http://livingsocial.com | http://clabs.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
