How to convert xls/xlsx to html using Ruby/Linux?

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Alexander2015-08-24 00:51:13

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Alexander, 2015-08-24 00:51:13

There is a web application on rails. How to convert xls/xlsx to html using Ruby (or Linux OS) so that it can be displayed correctly on a web page?

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Valery Ryaboshapko, 2015-08-24
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libreoffice --headless --convert-to html file.xlsx
LibreOffice and OpenOffice are completely interchangeable.

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Roman Mirilaczvili, 2015-08-24
@2ord

1. gem roo
2. xls2csv (catdoc package), xlsx2csv + gem FasterCSV .
3. The ssconvert utility as part of the gnumeric package (requires Xorg installed).
As for text documents, definitely pandoc .

If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife. Pandoc can convert documents in markdown, reStructuredText, textile, HTML, DocBook, LaTeX, MediaWiki markup, TWiki markup, OPML, Emacs Org-Mode, Txt2Tags, Microsoft Word docx, EPUB, or Haddock markup to
... (many different formats)
Written in Haskell. The easiest way is to take a ready-made binary and not build it yourself.