On 13 August 2010 17:05, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote: > Rails is a Web framework. Word and Excel documents have no place on the > Web -- they do not work well as interchange formats or play nicely with > Web browsers. Do not design your Web applications in such a way that > Word and Excel documents are generated -- that's just irresponsible.
Tsch! Rails is a Ruby framework - and it can be used to make web applications, or non-web intranet applications, or a mix of whatever a client asks. If a client asks to produce the functionality to export data into the office-application format of their choice, then it's not irresponsible to do exactly that. (at a preference, I output PDFs and CSVs, but if I *had* to make a Word doc - and I can imagine situations it would be asked for - then so be it) -- 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.
