title: Formatting a cell as Text using the axlsx spreadsheet ruby gem?
body: <p>I'm using the <a href="https://github.com/randym/axlsx" rel="noreferrer">axlsx ruby gem</a> to create Excel-compatible <code>.xlsx</code> files. I can't figure out how to override the cell type that is generated by it's automatic type detection. For Active Record model attributes of type <code>string</code> the gem is setting the Excel cell format to General, but I want it to use Text explicitly. That way I can avoid stripping leading zeros off of zip codes, etc.</p>
  
  <p>Anybody know how to accomplish this?</p>