[ANN] Ruby Bindings for POI

[Avik Sengupta]

POI (http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/) is a pure java library that reads
and writes OLE2 Compound Document Files; in particular, it excels at
processing MS Excel file formats.

I have just checked into the POI repository an initial attempt at
creating a Ruby wrapper for this library. This is done by compiling POI
with GCJ to create a native lib, and generating the Ruby wrappers with
SWIG.

Documentation is at: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/poi-ruby.html

Note that this is at an initial stage, and further wrapping coverage is
coming soon... however I think it already has enough features to be
useful. See the testcases for examples of what you can do.

Hop on to (e-mail address removed) if you want to help develop this
further.

Thoughts/feedback/brickbats gratefully accepted.

Regards
-
Avik Sengupta

 

[Phil Tomson]

POI (http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/) is a pure java library that reads
and writes OLE2 Compound Document Files; in particular, it excels at
processing MS Excel file formats.

I have just checked into the POI repository an initial attempt at
creating a Ruby wrapper for this library. This is done by compiling POI
with GCJ to create a native lib, and generating the Ruby wrappers with
SWIG.

That's interesting. This is the first I've heard of anyone wrapping a
Java library in this manner. An article describing how you did this would
be very nice - and you could probably get it published somewhere.


Phil

 

[Avik Sengupta]

This is the first I've heard of anyone wrapping a Java library in
this manner.

Sorry, cant take credit .

See http://pylucene.osafoundation.org ... its python, rather than ruby,
but similar process (gcj/swig)... which is where I got the inspiration.


But yes, an article would be nice, thanks. Pylucene doesnt have the
best of documentation.