SimpleXlsxReader

An xlsx reader for Ruby that parses xlsx cell values into plain ruby primitives and dates/times.

This is not a rewrite of excel in Ruby. Font styles, for example, are parsed to determine whether a cell is a number or a date, then forgotten. We just want to get the data, and get out!

Usage

Summary:

doc = SimpleXlsxReader.open('/path/to/workbook.xlsx')
doc.sheets # => [<#SXR::Sheet>, ...]
doc.sheets.first.name # 'Sheet1'
doc.sheets.first.rows # [['Header 1', 'Header 2', ...]
                         ['foo', 2, ...]]

That's it!

Load Errors

By default, cell load errors (ex. if a date cell contains the string 'hello') result in a SimpleXlsxReader::CellLoadError.

If you would like to provide better error feedback to your users, you can set SimpleXlsxReader.configuration.catch_cell_load_errors = true, and load errors will instead be inserted into Sheet#load_errors keyed by [rownum, colnum].

More

Here's the totality of the public api, in code:

module SimpleXlsxReader
  def self.open(file_path)
    Document.new(file_path).tap(&:sheets)
  end

  class Document
    attr_reader :file_path

    def initialize(file_path)
      @file_path = file_path
    end

    def sheets
      @sheets ||= Mapper.new(xml).load_sheets
    end

    def to_hash
      sheets.inject({}) {|acc, sheet| acc[sheet.name] = sheet.rows; acc}
    end

    def xml
      Xml.load(file_path)
    end

    class Sheet < Struct.new(:name, :rows)
      def headers
        rows[0]
      end

      def data
        rows[1..-1]
      end

      # Load errors will be a hash of the form:
      # {
      #   [rownum, colnum] => '[error]'
      # }
      def load_errors
        @load_errors ||= {}
      end
    end
  end
end

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'simple_xlsx_reader'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install simple_xlsx_reader

Versioning

This project follows semantic versioning 1.0

Contributing

Remember to write tests, think about edge cases, and run the existing suite.

Note that as of commit 665cbafdde, the most extreme end of the linear-time performance test, which is 10,000 rows (12 columns), runs in ~4 seconds on Ruby 2.1 on a 2012 MBP. If the linear time assertion fails or you're way off that, there is probably a performance regression in your code.

Then, the standard stuff:

1. Fork this project
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request