On May 27, 2011, at 10:13 PM, Chris McCann wrote: > I'm looking for some suggestions on how best to provide a spreadsheet- > like calculation capability in a Rails app. I say "-like" because I'm > not trying to present the user with a true web-based Excel replacement > or a Google spreadsheet.
A thing that is likely to be useful to know in this context is that if you generate an HTML document with a table, only it winds up as a file with a .xls extension, Excel will happily open it as if it was a real spreadsheet, and it will translate a good deal of HTML formatting in the process. I believe there may even be a way to provide formulas when you do this, but don’t quote me on it. -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
