randym/axlsx

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xlsx generation with charts, images, automated column width, customizable styles and full schema validation. Axlsx excels at helping you generate beautiful Office Open XML Spreadsheet documents without having to understand the entire ECMA specification. Check out the README for some examples of how easy it is. Best of all, you can validate your xlsx file before serialization so you know for sure that anything generated is going to load on your client's machine.

3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2013-10-12 · latest 2026-03-10

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…continuation of the axlsx gem which was maintained back in the day by Randy Morgan (randym) over at https://github.com/randym/axlsx . One of my earliest open source contributions was adding support so that you could output spreadsheets…
comment by stevepike · 2026-03-10 · in Caxlsx: Ruby gem for xlsx generation with charts, images, schema validation
You might be interested in the axlsx ruby gem: https://github.com/randym/axlsx Haven't used it, but it allows the creation of pretty complex spreadsheets from ruby code. Not sure if it is able to read from spreadsheets, but it could be one…
comment by parm289 · 2014-03-05 · in The Command-Line Office
…https://phpexcel.codeplex.com/ (php) http://www.python-excel.org/ (python, based on openoffice ) https://github.com/randym/axlsx (ruby, xlsx write) https://github.com/seamusabshere/remote_table (ruby, xls/xlsx read)
comment by nonchalance · 2013-10-12 · in Why Microsoft Word must die