Roo implements read access for all common spreadsheet types.
Ruby read excel file xlsx.
This gem supports operating on xlsx files open xml format.
I also found a simple gem called simple xlsx reader that was easy to use and had everything i needed.
What i needed was a library that would read excel rows in streams.
This project contains sample code for reading excel files with different ruby libraries xlsx file examples.
End it is giving me the following.
Xlsx roo spreadsheet open file path xlsx roo excelx new xlsx spreadsheet xlsx sheet sheet number once we have access to a desired excel file we can get whatever data we need from it.
I created a quick and dirty benchmark comparing the four libraries that can read xlsx files in the above table.
I have samples for reading xlsx files using each of the above libraries in the linked github project.
Some googling brought me to the ruby gems roo and write xlsx.
If you need to read large excel files you may want to compare the performance between the different libraries.
Excel 97 excel 2002 xml and excel 2003 xml formats when using the roo xls gem xls xml google spreadsheets with read write access when using roo google.
Below are code samples for reading current ooxml excel files using rubyxl roo creek and simple xlsx reader.
This is my script.
Roo helped with reading excel files and we can do this by.
Book spreadsheet open myexcel xls.
Difference between read xlsx and read excel functions.
Install as a gem.
The only difference is that when read excel is used excel format is called internally by the read excel function to determine if the path is xls or xlsx file from the file extension.
I am trying to read an excel spreadsheet file with ruby but it is not reading the content of the file.
The result for reading the xlsx file with the two functions is same.