surpass by Ana Nelson http://ananelson.com Based on original Python code by Roman V. Kiseliov

== DESCRIPTION:

Surpass is writing (and eventually reading) excel workbooks in pure Ruby. Surpass is based on xlwt (and pyExcelerator).

For comprehensive documentation, please refer to the PDF manual which is available from http://surpass.rubyforge.org or in the root directory of the source code repository.

If you like to learn from playing with working examples, then there are plenty in the examples/ and webby/examples directories of the source code.

== REQUIREMENTS:

Tested with Ruby 1.8.6 (MRI or JRuby)

This is just standard Ruby, so please feel free to try on other Ruby platforms and let me know how it goes.

== INSTALL:

sudo gem install surpass

== LICENSE:

Please see LICENSE.txt in this directory.