website/index.html in roo-0.8.5 vs website/index.html in roo-0.9.0
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<div id="main">
<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">0.8.5</a>
+ <a href="http://rubyforge.org/projects/roo" class="numbers">0.9.0</a>
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<h2>What</h2>
<p>This gem allows you to access the content of</p>
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<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>
- <h3>With Ruby on Rails</h3>
+ <h3>Excel spreadsheets / Openoffice spreadsheets / Google spreadsheets with Ruby on Rails</h3>
- <p>You can even use roo within your web application. On the project page there is an example named roorails.tgz, which shows a short example how you can display a spreadsheet table on a web page (see files app/controllers/spreadsheet_controller.rb and app/views/spreadsheet/index.rhtml).</p>
+ <p>There is a simple helper method to display a spreadsheet at your application page:</p>
- <p>To display this example:</p>
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<ul>
- <li>unpack in any directory</li>
- <li>cd roorails</li>
- <li>ruby script/server</li>
- <li>point your browser to http://localhost:3000/spreadsheet/</li>
+ <li>in your controller, add “require ‘roo’” and ”@rspreadsheet = Openoffice.new(“numbers1.ods”)” or
+ ”@rspreadsheet = Openoffice.new(“http://www.somehost.com/data/numbers1.od s”)” to get access to your spreadsheet file</li>
+ <li>use it in any view of your application with ”<%= spreadsheet @rspreadsheet, [“Tabelle”] %><br/>” or one of the following formats</li>
</ul>
+ <p><img src="Roo_Spreadsheets_Rails.png"></p>
+
+
<h2>Where is it used?</h2>
<p>How do you use roo? What are you doing with roo?</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>, 16th December 2007<br>
+ <a href="mailto:drnicwilliams@gmail.com">Dr Nic</a>, 24th January 2008<br>
Theme extended from <a href="http://rb2js.rubyforge.org/">Paul Battley</a>
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