Ruby Spreadsheet: Bad file descriptor - test.xls (Errno::EBADF)

Question

I have problem with script that makes simple .xls file and writes data to one cell. Here is simple code:

require 'spreadsheet'

class Filter
  def filter
    @excel = Spreadsheet::Workbook.new
    @sheet = @excel.create_worksheet

    @sheet[0, 0] = "test"
        @excel.write 'test.xls'
  end
end

f = Filter.new
f.filter

But it raises error:

C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ruby-ole-1.2.11.5/lib/ole/storage/base.rb:62:in write_nonblock': Bad file descriptor - test.xls (Errno::EBADF) from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ruby-ole-1.2.11.5/lib/ole/storage/base.rb:62:ininitialize'
    from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ruby-ole-1.2.11.5/lib/ole/storage/base.rb:78:in
new' from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ruby-ole-1.2.11.5/lib/ole/storage/base.rb:78:inopen' from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spreadsheet-0.7.4/lib/spreadsheet/excel/writer/workbook.rb:4 53:in write_from_scratch' from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spreadsheet-0.7.4/lib/spreadsheet/excel/writer/workbook.rb:6 31:inwrite_workbook' from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spreadsheet-0.7.4/lib/spreadsheet/writer.rb:15:in block in write' from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spreadsheet-0.7.4/lib/spreadsheet/writer.rb:14:inopen' from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spreadsheet-0.7.4/lib/spreadsheet/writer.rb:14:in write' from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/spreadsheet-0.7.4/lib/spreadsheet/workbook.rb:116:inwrite'
    from filter.rb:10:in `filter'
    from filter.rb:15:in `<main>'

comme comme · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-09T02:47:08

because ruby-ole 1.2.11.5 doesn't support windows platform, more detail: ruby-ole issue

you can use ruby-ole 1.2.11.4 to avoid this problem.

require 'rubygems'
gem 'ruby-ole','1.2.11.4'
require 'spreadsheet'

Ruby Spreadsheet: Bad file descriptor - test.xls (Errno::EBADF)

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