There is an antique technique written up by Sam Neff at http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/node/41604 for ColdFusion. It works, and you don't need to run Word on your server. You don't have to use ColdFusion. In fact, you don't need to run Windows. The source code is still available at http://gemsres.com/story/41604/zip.html
Coldfusion is pretty easy to read, but if you get stuck, I'll be glad to interpret. I won't say it's not a PITA, but it does work; I've used it. I think I did a version of it in VBA out of MS Access. I even embedded the graphics. Ron On Apr 21, 6:35 am, "Simon Macneall" <[email protected]> wrote: > yeah, had a quick look, but it is an orphan project at the moment (at least > the word module is). > > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:28:12 +0800, Hasham <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Have you looked athttp://poi.apache.org/. Its a java library but has > > wrappers for ruby. > > > Hasham > >http://www.zenofruby.com > > > On Apr 21, 6:53 am, "Simon Macneall" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, > > >> Does anyone have any suggestions for generating a word doc from a linux > >> rails application? We were using html and just naming it .doc, which > >> works well until you need to embed images into the document. MHT looks > >> promising but the only libraries aren't free (not a deal breaker, but > >> free is better). > > >> Thanks > >> Simon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
