Export To Excel - Change Default “Save as type” to Microsoft Office Excel Workbook(*xls)

Hi all,

I am Doing an Export to Excel with my Ruby on Ralis application.I have not used any gem or Plugin (since our requirement was something different, we couldn't use them). We used the inbuilt "format.xls" support that comes with Ruby on Rails.

The problem is that, when we get our Excel, Save as Type appears on the webpage. I want to change this to Microsoft Office Excel Workbook (*xls). How to do it?

Below is my controller action code and the respective view with which we get the excel.

Get_excel methods in controller

def get_excel     format.xls do         headers['Content-Type'] = "application/vnd.ms-excel"         headers["Content-disposition"] = 'inline; filename="myexcel.xls"'         headers['Cache-Control'] = ''     end end

VIEW (get_excel.xls.erb)

<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office       xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"       xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40&quot;       xmlns:ss = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet" /> <head>   <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>   <meta name=ProgId content=Excel.Sheet/>   <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Excel 11"/>   <style type="text/css">     @page {       mso-header-data : '&R CONFIDENTIAL';       margin: 0.75in 0.20in 0.5in 0.20in;       mso-header-margin: 0.25in;       mso-footer-margin:0.25in;       mso-page-orientation: landscape;     }     table{       page-break-inside: avoid;     }     td{       white-space:nowrap;     }   </style>

  <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <x:ExcelWorkbook>   <x:ExcelWorksheets    <x:ExcelWorksheet>     <x:Name>Gantt Detail</x:Name>     <x:WorksheetOptions>     <x:DefaultRowHeight>319</x:DefaultRowHeight>      <x:Print>       <x:FitHeight>15</x:FitHeight>       <x:ValidPrinterInfo/>       <x:Scale>74</x:Scale>       <x:HorizontalResolution>600</x:HorizontalResolution>       <x:VerticalResolution>600</x:VerticalResolution>      </x:Print>      <x:Selected/>      <x:FrozenNoSplit/>      <x:SplitHorizontal>5</x:SplitHorizontal>      <x:TopRowBottomPane>5</x:TopRowBottomPane>      <x:ActivePane>2</x:ActivePane>           <x:Panes>             <x:Pane>             <x:Number>3</x:Number>             </x:Pane>             <x:Pane>             <x:Number>2</x:Number>             </x:Pane>      <x:ProtectContents>False</x:ProtectContents>      <x:ProtectObjects>False</x:ProtectObjects>      <x:ProtectScenarios>False</x:ProtectScenarios>     </x:WorksheetOptions>    </x:ExcelWorksheet>   </x:ExcelWorksheets>   <x:WindowHeight>8580</x:WindowHeight>   <x:WindowWidth>12120</x:WindowWidth>   <x:WindowTopX>120</x:WindowTopX>   <x:WindowTopY>45</x:WindowTopY>   <x:ProtectStructure>False</x:ProtectStructure>   <x:ProtectWindows>False</x:ProtectWindows> </x:ExcelWorkbook> <x:ExcelName>   <x:Name>Print_Titles</x:Name>   <x:SheetIndex>1</x:SheetIndex>   <x:Formula>='Gantt Detail'!$3:$5</x:Formula> </x:ExcelName> </xml><![endif]-->

</head> <body>   <table> <tr>some code</tr> <tr>some code</tr> <tr>some code</tr> <tr>some code</tr> <tr>some code</tr>   </table> </body>

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Try adding a mime-type for Excel to your Web server.

Walter