title: Ruby on Rails -Reading xls file using Spreadsheet RubyGem
body: <p>I am using the following code to read an excel file using the <code>Spreadsheet</code> gem.</p>
  
  <pre><code>require 'spreadsheet'
  Spreadsheet.client_encoding = 'UTF-8'    
  
  book = Spreadsheet.open('C:\Users\Lev Berlin\Documents\Personal\Projects\FactsRus\Nutritional Analysis Models\Data for Rails model import.xls')
  sheet1 = book.worksheet('Sheet1')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But the file is not being read properly.</p>
  
  <p>When I uncomment <code>require 'parseexel'</code> line in another file then files are processed properly.</p>
  
  <p>Please help me; what is wrong here?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>