'powerpoint' is a Ruby gem that can generate PowerPoint files(pptx).
'powerpoint' can be used from the command line or as part of a Ruby web framework. To install the gem using terminal, run the following command:
gem install powerpoint
To use it in Rails, add this line to your Gemfile:
gem "powerpoint"
'powerpoint' gem can generate a PowerPoint presentaion based on a standard template:
require'powerpoint'@deck=Powerpoint::Presentation.new# Creating an introduction slide:title='Bicycle Of the Mind'subtitle='created by Steve Jobs'@deck.add_introtitle,subtitle# Creating a text-only slide:# Title must be a string.# Content must be an array of strings that will be displayed as bullet items.title='Why Mac?'content=['Its cool!','Its light.']@deck.add_textual_slidetitle,content# Creating an image Slide:# It will contain a title as string.# and an embeded imagetitle='Everyone loves Macs:'image_path='samples/images/sample_gif.gif'@deck.add_pictorial_slidetitle,image_path# Specifying coordinates and image size for an embeded image.# x and y values define the position of the image on the slide.# cx and cy define the width and height of the image.# x, y, cx, cy are in points. Each pixel is 12700 points.# coordinates parameter is optional.coords={x: 124200,y: 3356451,cx: 2895600,cy: 1013460}@deck.add_pictorial_slidetitle,image_path,coords# Saving the pptx file to the current directory.@deck.save('test.pptx')'powerpoint' gem has been tested with LibreOffice (4.2.1.1) and Apache OpenOffice (4.0.1) on Mac OS X Mavericks, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 on Windows 7 and Google Docs (latest version as of March 2014).
Contributions are welcomed. You can fork a repository, add your code changes to the forked branch, ensure all existing unit tests pass, create new unit tests cover your new changes and finally create a pull request.
After forking and then cloning the repository locally, install Bundler and then use it to install the development gem dependecies:
gem install bundler
bundle install
Once this is complete, you should be able to run the test suite:
rake
Please use the Issues page to report bugs or suggest new enhancements.
Powerpoint has been published under MIT License