website/index.html in roo-0.5.1 vs website/index.html in roo-0.5.2
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+ new
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<h1>roo</h1>
<div id="version" class="clickable" onclick='document.location = "http://rubyforge.org/projects/roo"; return false'>
Get Version
- <a href="http://rubyforge.org/projects/roo" class="numbers">0.5.1</a>
+ <a href="http://rubyforge.org/projects/roo" class="numbers">0.5.2</a>
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<h2>What</h2>
<p>This gem allows you to access the content of open-office and Excel spreadsheets (.ods/.xls).</p>
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<p>Old .sxc OpenOffice files are currently not supported – please load these files and save it as an “OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods)”.</p>
+ <h3>Accessing Spreadsheet over the Web</h3>
+
+
+You can even read excel-spreadsheets from a http-address:
+<pre>
+<code>oo = Excel.new("http://www.somedomain.com/simple_spreadsheet.xls").
+</code>
+</pre>
+
+or a zipped file:
+<pre>
+<code>oo = Excel.new("http://www.somedomain.com/simple_spreadsheet.xls.zip",:zip).
+</code>
+</pre>
+
+after working with a spreadsheet from the web you have to call
+<pre>
+<code>oo.remove_tmp
+</code>
+</pre>
+
+ <p>to delete the temporary local copy of the spreadsheet file. If you dont call
+this method you will have subdirectories names ‘oo_xxxxx’ which you can remove manually.
+Calling remove_tmp is not the best solution to clean temporary files – i will
+provide a better solution in the next releases.</p>
+
+
<h3>Remote Access</h3>
<p>You can even access your spreadsheet data from a remote machine via <span class="caps">SOAP</span>. The examples directory shows a little example how to do this. If you like, you can extend these functions or restrict the access to certain cells.
Remote access with <span class="caps">SOAP</span> is nothing specific to roo, you can do this with every Rub object, but i thought it would nice to give an example what could be done with roo.</p>
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<p><a href="rdoc/index.html">rdoc</a></p>
+ <p>Only the Openoffice- and Excel-parts of this gem are currently working – the Google-Spreadheets are experimental and are currently <span class="caps">NOT</span> working. Don’t use this!</p>
+
+
<h2>Feature Requests / Bugs</h2>
<p>Submit Feature Requests and bugs here: <a href="http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=3729">http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=3729</a></p>
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<li><a href="http://rubyforge.org/users/nicwilliams/">Dr Nic Williams</a> for his wonderful gem ‘<a href="http://rubyforge.org/projects/newgem/">newgem</a>’ which makes it very convenient to create, manage and publish Ruby gems</li>
<li>for the Excel-part the <a href="http://rubyforge.org/projects/spreadsheet/">spreadsheet</a> gem is used. My functions are a convenient wrapper around the functions of this gem</li>
<li>Dirk Huth fürs Testen unter Windows</li>
</ul>
<p class="coda">
- <a href="mailto:drnicwilliams@gmail.com">Dr Nic</a>, 7th August 2007<br>
+ <a href="mailto:drnicwilliams@gmail.com">Dr Nic</a>, 26th August 2007<br>
Theme extended from <a href="http://rb2js.rubyforge.org/">Paul Battley</a>
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