The Ruby Spreadsheet

February 8, 2010

Exported Formulas displaying #name? and #REF? when opened in Excel

Filed under: Spreadsheet — Tags: , , — zdavatz @ 7:23 am

The Ruby Spreadsheet Gem is not acting as expected with the formula of cell A2 in: http://www.kangarooit.com/test/test_input.xls When copying this formula into another spreadsheet (and writing that spreadsheet to disk using the ruby Spreadsheet API), the resultant spreadsheet (test_output.xls) shows ‘#REF!’ in mac excel and ‘#NAME?’ in openoffice for cell A2 instead of ‘365’ How can this script be modified so that the resultant spreadsheet ‘test_output.xls’ has ‘365’ visible in cell A2 when opened in a spreadsheet program (eg. excel, open office)?? To test this behavior, copy this script into a file called ‘spreadsheet_spec.rb’ & run: > spec spreadsheet_spec.rb

http://pastie.org/809024?theme=blackboard

http://github.com/jacobat/ruby-spreadsheet/issues#issue/2

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