creating tables with variable number of columns

rubyonrails-talk
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to put this question as simply as possible...

- spreadsheet functionality without a spreadsheet -

ive tried a few different approaches to this problem without success... giving the user a way to create tables to store trivial information in tabular format. each table would generally have a different number of columns...

the last approach i tried involved having a sheet, sheetrow, sheetcolumn, sheetfield... sheet having many rows and columns, field belonging to row and column... etc... whatever - as you can tell this is a complication from hell and unlikely to be in any way shape or form efficient...

so any ideas?

thanks, - FJM

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Have a look at:

http://code.google.com/p/trimpath/wiki/TrimSpreadsheet

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yeah, i guess a main stumbling block is going to be keeping all the data separate. i don't want to just store my stuff as a serialized object ... eh, i guess im going to be trying to reinvent the wheel in some ways but i can't really find another decent way... many thanks though.