If you need to read large excel files you may want to compare the performance between the different libraries.
Ruby read excel file xlsx.
I have samples for reading xlsx files using each of the above libraries in the linked github project.
I created a quick and dirty benchmark comparing the four libraries that can read xlsx files in the above table.
Roo implements read access for all common spreadsheet types.
Roo helped with reading excel files and we can do this by.
This project contains sample code for reading excel files with different ruby libraries xlsx file examples.
End it is giving me the following.
Install as a gem.
Sheet1 book worksheet 0 sheet1 each do row puts row inspect.
Some googling brought me to the ruby gems roo and write xlsx.
Book spreadsheet open myexcel xls.
I also found a simple gem called simple xlsx reader that was easy to use and had everything i needed.
Excel 97 excel 2002 xml and excel 2003 xml formats when using the roo xls gem xls xml google spreadsheets with read write access when using roo google.
When i called simplexlsxreader open file path memory consumption would go to 2gb and it would stay that way until the garbage collector cleaned it.
While it is capable of properly parsing the entire ooxml structure its current main emphasis is on reading files produced by ms excel making minor modifications to them and saving them to be opened again while preserving as much of the structure as possible.
I am trying to read an excel spreadsheet file with ruby but it is not reading the content of the file.
This gem supports operating on xlsx files open xml format.
Difference between read xlsx and read excel functions.
Below are code samples for reading current ooxml excel files using rubyxl roo creek and simple xlsx reader.
What i needed was a library that would read excel rows in streams.
The result for reading the xlsx file with the two functions is same.