display ppt file in rails application

rubyonrails-talk
#1

Hello Evereyone...!

I am trying to create rails application like slideshare, I had properly
upload my ppt file in to database when I want to perform/display that
particular presentation file.

How can i achieve that without using thirdparties application like
upload ppt file into scribd etc..

please anybody suggest me or give some usefull gems for that...!

#2

is there anybody given solution to me?

#3

I am really glad to know this slideshare app is also developed using
ruby on rails. How can they achieve it......!!

#4

http://www.slideshare.net/developers

#5

ruby_powerpoint is probably a decent place to start:

https://github.com/pythonicrubyist/ruby_powerpoint

Note that it only works with new-style pptx files.

For the old format, GOOD LUCK. They are poorly-documented and tricky to work with. Tools like Docsplit (http://documentcloud.github.io/docsplit/) might do what you want for these, but they depend on LibreOffice - and correspondingly, can only read PPT files that work in LibreOffice.

One gotcha: none of these will replicate any of the more complex behaviors (animations, transitions). ruby_powerpoint doesn’t even give text style info back, just text and images.

–Matt Jones