On 14 January 2016 at 13:02, Pedro Santos <[email protected]> wrote: > Basically, I need to generate reports which contains more than 300 tables, > over 100 charts and many images. Until now this was done manually in docx, > so I was asked to build an RoR app where the user could add all the images > and data, and with one button click get the report. Here is the problem. The > user wants to be able to download the report, and be able to edit that file > manually. > So I looked for gems. Many of them just fill spaces in docx files. At the > moment I use axlsx to generate my charts, tables and images, everything is > saved into excel file. It works pretty well. I was thinking if there is some > kind of format that ruby can edit (insert tables, bar charts, styles...) and > the same format could be opened in the office.... why ? because I could open > the file and convert it to docx.. > I am a little lost. My web app have database ready, just need some way of > generating that file for the user. Any tips would be nice. I thought about > html reports, but I cant edit them later, or can I ?
I believe LibreOffice can open html files, which could then be saved as doc. I guess the MS equivalent can also do that, but I don't know. Easy enough to try it. Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAL%3D0gLuuAJ6OeQSJ9SHLKWpsNk2BxbcABcB0t1Jr8APjWaFSXw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
