Re: Financial models using Ruby

2013-02-05 Thread Dwayne Henderson
Hey thanks a lot Ralf - tons of strong points there. I'll definitely be going for Ruby now. The drawbacks: 1) people could not longer use Excel 2) no gui I'm sure I can make up for this by turning it into a smooth Rails webapp (that imitates cells), maybe coupled with a decent charting

Re: Financial models using Ruby

2013-02-05 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Why not use Python, python has more mathematical modules like numpy as well as better compatibility with the UNO bridge. Also you can generate Python extensions, so the code could be monetized. Also Python is much better supported and you can find tons of examples to do a lot in OpenOffice and

Re: My machine is French but I want OpenOffice in English. Why do you chose for me, why can't I select what I want? eom

2013-02-05 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 04/02/2013 23:09, Rory O'Farrell a écrit : The OP's gripe was that OpenOffice site was deciding what version to install, not the version he wanted. The answer to him was that he could have overruled the site decision and downloaded from the full range of versions. Or that he could

Re: Financial models using Ruby

2013-02-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Dwayne Henderson its.code.in.h...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working on this financial modelhttp://leeds-faculty.colorado.edu/moyes/html/documents/FinancialProjectionsModelv6.8.9.xlsfor my upcoming ecommerce business using OpenOffice.org Calc (and the BASIC