Hi I have written a toolkit in this area, still working toward releasing the gem on ruby gems but project/source is here https://github.com/autotelik/interact
The .xls file read/write requires JRuby but is OS independant and does not require Excel be installed. The main focus is import/export from active record direct to Excel or CSV but all the tools for CSV->Excel are in there .. the excel wrapper to generate Excel from Ruby arrays/data is under : lib / helpers / jruby / jexcel_file.rb and check out the specs and tasks such as interact tasks/excel_generator.rake Hope that helps Tom -- 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.