[Rails] Re: Ruby on Rails - Database or excel

On Saturday, November 23, 2013 11:22:22 AM UTC, Stephen Lane wrote:
> I am currently doing a project in Ruby on Rails and I have been presented with a dilemma.
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> The dilemma is that the users of my system will be uploading an excel spreadsheet. The issue is should I just read straight from this excel spreadsheet into my front-end or should I load this spreadsheet into my MySQL database and then to my front-end.
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What do you mean by reading into your frontend? It's not clear to me what the difference is between the two paths you are confronted with.

Fred.


> I have asked numerous people about this issue and have researched on-line to no avail.
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> Any help would be much appreciated.
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> Thanks
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> Stephen

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