JohnAllen.us

There have been a couple of Ruby websites that  tell you how to import Excel Constant values into your program….but some seem to not be quite correct.   I don’t know if they are using a different version of Ruby or what, but here’s what has worked for me.

In your Ruby program, add the following lines:

require 'win32ole'

class ExcelConst
# blank method to hold all the constants
end
...

file = Dir.pwd + "/" + @YourFilenameInHere
efile = getAbsolutePathName(file)
xl = WIN32OLE.new('Excel.Application')
xl.visible = true
wb = xl.Workbooks.Open("#{efile}")
ws = wb.Worksheets(1)
ws.Select
# Load in Excel Constants
WIN32OLE.const_load(xl, ExcelConst)

Note that the ‘ExcelConst’ is class not a method or a def as I have seen on some other websites.  I tried those  and received this error

excel_example.rb:189: uninitialized constant ExcelConst (NameError)