We can handle spreadsheets easily with the help of SPREADSHEET ruby gem.
Installation:
> gem install spreadsheet
Basic Code:
require ‘rubygems’
require ‘spreadsheet’
book = Spreadsheet::Workbook.new
sheet1 = book.create_worksheet :name => (‘Names’)
sheet1[0,0] = ‘Raveendran’
sheet1[0,1] = ‘Age : 24’
sheet1[1,0] = ‘Jazzezravi’
sheet1[1,1] = ‘Age : 25’
sheet1[2,0] = ‘Jazzez’
sheet1[2,1] = ‘Age: 26’
book.write(‘F:\ravi\sample.xls’)
For more details — http://spreadsheet.rubyforge.org/