Ruby Read Excel File Xlsx

Some googling brought me to the ruby gems roo and write xlsx.

Ruby read excel file xlsx. Difference between read xlsx and read excel functions. This project contains sample code for reading excel files with different ruby libraries xlsx file examples. When i called simplexlsxreader open file path memory consumption would go to 2gb and it would stay that way until the garbage collector cleaned it. While it is capable of properly parsing the entire ooxml structure its current main emphasis is on reading files produced by ms excel making minor modifications to them and saving them to be opened again while preserving as much of the structure as possible.

The result for reading the xlsx file with the two functions is same. 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. What i needed was a library that would read excel rows in streams. Below are code samples for reading current ooxml excel files using rubyxl roo creek and simple xlsx reader.

Roo helped with reading excel files and we can do this by. Sheet1 book worksheet 0 sheet1 each do row puts row inspect. Roo implements read access for all common spreadsheet types. I also found a simple gem called simple xlsx reader that was easy to use and had everything i needed.

Install as a gem. Book spreadsheet open myexcel xls. 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. End it is giving me the following.

If you need to read large excel files you may want to compare the performance between the different libraries. This gem supports operating on xlsx files open xml format. 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. This is my script.