This is my script.
Ruby read excel file xlsx.
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.
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.
I am trying to read an excel spreadsheet file with ruby but it is not reading the content of the file.
The only difference is that when read excel is used excel format is called internally by the read excel function to determine if the path is xls or xlsx file from the file extension.
Install as a gem.
Difference between read xlsx and read excel functions.
This project contains sample code for reading excel files with different ruby libraries xlsx file examples.
This gem supports operating on xlsx files open xml format.
Below are code samples for reading current ooxml excel files using rubyxl roo creek and simple xlsx reader.
Some googling brought me to the ruby gems roo and write xlsx.
End it is giving me the following.
I also found a simple gem called simple xlsx reader that was easy to use and had everything i needed.
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.
Roo implements read access for all common spreadsheet types.
Xlsx roo spreadsheet open file path xlsx roo excelx new xlsx spreadsheet xlsx sheet sheet number once we have access to a desired excel file we can get whatever data we need from it.
Book spreadsheet open myexcel xls.
I have samples for reading xlsx files using each of the above libraries in the linked github project.
Sheet1 book worksheet 0 sheet1 each do row puts row inspect.
I created a quick and dirty benchmark comparing the four libraries that can read xlsx files in the above table.