On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Corey Lawson wrote: > Well, you can sure automate Excel from Ruby... > > look at the Win32OLE library... > > You would maybe then want to encapsulate the Excel automation, perhaps > in some ActiveRecord::Base-derived class... > > It's hard to beat doing certain things in Excel, but like any > development platform, there are a few good ways to do things and a LOT > of bad ways. Unfortunately, some of the bad ways are trivial to do... and sometimes that includes excel http://www.agresearch.co.nz/Science/Statistics/exceluse1.htm http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:Hc48rjQucbMJ:www.mis.coventry.ac.uk/~nhunt/pottel.pdf+accuracy+excel&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=6 fyi. -a -- be kind whenever possible... it is always possible. - h.h. the 14th dali lama