Last Update: 17.09.2009, 16.32 - hwyss

= Spreadsheet

http://spreadsheet.rubyforge.org http://scm.ywesee.com/spreadsheet

For a viewable directory of all recent changes, please see:

http://scm.ywesee.com/?p=spreadsheet;a=summary

For Non-GPLv3 commercial licencing, please see:

http://www.spreadsheet.ch

== Description

The Spreadsheet Library is designed to read and write Spreadsheet Documents. As of version 0.6.0, only Microsoft Excel compatible spreadsheets are supported. Spreadsheet is a combination/complete rewrite of the Spreadsheet::Excel Library by Daniel J. Berger and the ParseExcel Library by Hannes Wyss. Spreadsheet can read, write and modify Spreadsheet Documents.

== What's new?

Significantly improved memory-efficiency when reading large Excel Files
Limited Spreadsheet modification support
Improved handling of String Encodings

== Roadmap

0.7.0:: Improved Format support/Styles 0.7.1:: Document Modification: Formats/Styles 0.8.0:: Formula Support 0.8.1:: Document Modification: Formulas 0.9.0:: Write-Support: BIFF5 1.0.0:: Ruby 1.9 Support; Remove backward compatibility code

== Dependencies

ruby 1.8
Iconv
ruby-ole[http://code.google.com/p/ruby-ole/]

== Examples

Have a look at the GUIDE[link://files/GUIDE_txt.html].

== Installation

Using RubyGems[http://www.rubygems.org]:

sudo gem install spreadsheet

If you don't like RubyGems[http://www.rubygems.org], let me know which installation solution you prefer and I'll include it in the future.

== Authors

Original Code:

== License

This library is distributed under the GPLv3. Please see the LICENSE[link://files/LICENSE_txt.html] file.

Spreadsheet

Install / Use

README