Don't laugh ... i've just released my 1st gem today, many many thanks to Dr Nic's newgem, which makes creating this gem a breeze. This new gem is called anyss, which abbreviates 'any spreadsheet', and is a damn basic wrapper for gnumeric's ssconvert binary, just enough to scratch my own itch though :]. You can find anyss here.
Why anyss ? cos i need a way to convert *.ods (openoffice), *.gnumeric (gnumeric) and *.xls (ms excel) to *.csv. Since gnumeric's ssconvert does the job well, i decide to write a wrapper for it. I'm not sure of whether this is a good idea though, as using ssconvert binary as the convertor means that only systems with newer versions of gnumeric can run anyss, and btw, why would server install gnumeric in the 1st place ?!
BUT if an itch needs to be scratched, it has to be scratched, rite ?!
(i've found out that i need to have ~/.hoerc to ensure some of the new gem's rake tasks run).
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