Im just about to convert an access based system to ROR. But i have no idea how i would print out documents/letters from within ROR. Does anyone have any ideas how to mail merge my database into documents and then print them?? Is there an easy solution? Any help is appreciated as i''m kindof stuck Thanks, Chris -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Chris wrote:> Im just about to convert an access based system to ROR. But i have no > idea how i would print out documents/letters from within ROR. > > Does anyone have any ideas how to mail merge my database into documents > and then print them?? Is there an easy solution?If you''re mail merging in Word, you should be able to set up an ODBC link to the Rails database and mail merge from that. If you want to actually create the documents in Rails, then you''re down to manually creating PDFs, RTFs or XML for something else to chew on. It should be possible to create OpenOffice documents (or Scribus documents, for that matter) straight from Rails templates, but I''ve never heard of it being done. Maybe someone else can weigh in here? -- Alex
Could I do a simple find and replace on the fields i want replacing? like the address & name fields? Alex Young wrote:> Chris wrote: >> Im just about to convert an access based system to ROR. But i have no >> idea how i would print out documents/letters from within ROR. >> >> Does anyone have any ideas how to mail merge my database into documents >> and then print them?? Is there an easy solution? > If you''re mail merging in Word, you should be able to set up an ODBC > link to the Rails database and mail merge from that. > > If you want to actually create the documents in Rails, then you''re down > to manually creating PDFs, RTFs or XML for something else to chew on. > > It should be possible to create OpenOffice documents (or Scribus > documents, for that matter) straight from Rails templates, but I''ve > never heard of it being done. Maybe someone else can weigh in here?-- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Alex Young
2006-Jan-29 20:30 UTC
[Rails] Re: Mail merging and printing decent documents? how?
Chris wrote:> Could I do a simple find and replace on the fields i want replacing? > like the address & name fields?it depends on how you were planning to get the information into the Rails app (and out again), but once Rails can see it, you can do whatever you want. I did think after writing that last email that if you''re on Windows, there''s also the OLE interface, which might be the easiest way to control Word documents. -- Alex