'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_intro title, 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_slide title, content
# Creating an image Slide:
# It will contain a title as string.
# and an embeded image
title = 'Everyone loves Macs:'
image_path = 'samples/images/sample_gif.gif'
@deck.add_pictorial_slide title, 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_slide title, 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