Hello All, This may be the start of a compendium-thread... Add your previous knowledge here? I''m looking for the most-competent web-reporting tool to use for Rails apps. I''m thinking a-la Business Objects'' CrystalReportsWeb, DataDynamics'' ActiveReports, etc. I''m expecting mostly just tabbed/formatted report output. Charting might be cool, but my co. doesn''t use charts anywhere, so they''re not as important to me. What do you y''all know about ? Peter J. Fitzgibbons Applications Manager Lakewood Homes - "The American Dream Builder"(r) Peter.Fitzgibbons-STCS76aLmhk1y/cD6r8xzl6hYfS7NtTn@public.gmane.org (847) 884-8800
Peter Fitzgibbons wrote:> I''m looking for the most-competent web-reporting tool to use for Rails > apps. I''m thinking a-la Business Objects'' CrystalReportsWeb, > DataDynamics'' ActiveReports, etc.[snip]> What do you y''all know about ?DataVision (http://datavision.sourceforge.net). Not that I''m prejudiced, of course. Jim -- Jim Menard, jimm-Xhj3G7Rj6JI@public.gmane.org, http://www.io.com/~jimm "Cheat sheet for the 21st century: Closed, bad. Open, good." -- Wired
On 7/28/05, Peter Fitzgibbons <Peter.Fitzgibbons-p2lxMnUesd41y/cD6r8xzl6hYfS7NtTn@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Hello All, > > This may be the start of a compendium-thread... Add your previous > knowledge here? > > I''m looking for the most-competent web-reporting tool to use for Rails > apps. I''m thinking a-la Business Objects'' CrystalReportsWeb, > DataDynamics'' ActiveReports, etc. > > I''m expecting mostly just tabbed/formatted report output. Charting > might be cool, but my co. doesn''t use charts anywhere, so they''re not as > important to me. > > What do you y''all know about ?There really is no solution at this time *in Ruby*. What you''ll find yourself doing is talking to some other reporting component (BO, Jasper, DataVision) via webservices or whatever api they provide. This so far has been the best route, and the one I have taken. With the emergence of libraries like PDF::Writer and ActiveRecord, some of the foundation is there for a solution using only Ruby. But there is still a lot of work to be done to have a complete tool such as Business Objects. I''ve used PDF::Writer for outputting simple tables of ActiveRecord objects. It is certainly possible to accomplish much more, but I''ve not had the time or energy to devote to that yet. Jason> > Peter J. Fitzgibbons > Applications Manager > Lakewood Homes - "The American Dream Builder"(r) > Peter.Fitzgibbons-STCS76aLmhk1y/cD6r8xzl6hYfS7NtTn@public.gmane.org > (847) 884-8800 > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >
One interesting part of DataVision is that it lets you write formulas in Ruby (its default scripting language). Joshua _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
Jason Foreman escreveu:> I''ve used PDF::Writer for outputting simple tables of ActiveRecord > objects. It is certainly possible to accomplish much more, but I''ve > not had the time or energy to devote to that yet. >Jason I''m going to take the same route. A Java tool and PDF::Writer for simple tables, but I''m starting with Rails Ruby and PDF::Writer. Can you share some code or experience with the community. A page in rails wiki would be nice about your experience with PDF::Writer and Rails. Geraldo Lopes de Souza
-----Original Message----- From: rails-bounces-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org [mailto:rails-bounces-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Jim Menard Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 12:13 PM To: rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org Subject: Re: [Rails] Reporting on the Rails Peter Fitzgibbons wrote:> I''m looking for the most-competent web-reporting tool to use for Rails> apps. I''m thinking a-la Business Objects'' CrystalReportsWeb, > DataDynamics'' ActiveReports, etc.[snip]> What do you y''all know about ?DataVision (http://datavision.sourceforge.net). Not that I''m prejudiced, of course. Jim -- _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails Ok, so how about this... Since my office is currently Microsoft-centric, we have a MSDN subscription, and also licensed SQL Servers, so to use SQL Reporting Services for us would be "free". How heavily would you weigh on this decidedly non-rails system to provide reporting requirements ? Is it easy enough to gen the redirection-URL for the parametered-up report call when the user click''s "Report Me" from the Rails app ? Peter J. Fitzgibbons Applications Manager Lakewood Homes - "The American Dream Builder"(r) Peter.Fitzgibbons-STCS76aLmhk1y/cD6r8xzl6hYfS7NtTn@public.gmane.org (847) 884-8800
Peter Fitzgibbons wrote:>Hello All, > >This may be the start of a compendium-thread... Add your previous >knowledge here? > >I''m looking for the most-competent web-reporting tool to use for Rails >apps. I''m thinking a-la Business Objects'' CrystalReportsWeb, >DataDynamics'' ActiveReports, etc. > >Hi Peter. I''m considering OpenRpt : www.openrpt.org It has a cross platform GUI Designer. I am not sure that a version for MacOS exists too. The only thing necessary to work in a web app enviroment should be the ability to produce the output in PDF via command line. I am not sure that this feature is already available. Otherwise the most light solution could be to write a little engine, in Ruby of course, that produce reports in HTML format. My main concern about this solution is to manage headers, footers, page breaks and paper layout, but I''ll prefer this solution because it doesn''t depend on any PDF reader and would be completly Ruby integrated.