Rails - Aug 2005 - how can I create formated reports?

Hi,

I would like to create reports from some of the views of my application. By 
"report" I mean a file formatted so that it can be easily saved and
printed.

To make myself just even more clear, let''s imagine I have an
application
that handles information about movies. When I display a movie, it shows in 
an html page with the name, category, actors and reviews of this movie. Now, 
I would like to create a formatted report ( != from html printout) that 
contains some or all of these "show" pages. It would take as parameter
the
result of a filter (ex: all the movies of a given category) and then each 
page of the report would give the required set of information (ex: movie 
name, category, reviews [1-3], page number, ...).

Anyone has done this successfully?

Nicolas


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I would suggest looking at some of the ruby pdf libraries. they are quite good.

Sam

On 8/24/05, Nicolas Buet
<nicolas.buet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>  
>  I would like to create reports from some of the views of my application.
By
> "report" I mean a file formatted so that it can be easily saved
and printed.
>  
>  To make myself just even more clear, let''s imagine I have an
application
> that handles information about movies. When I display a movie, it shows in
> an html page with the name, category, actors and reviews of this movie.
Now,
> I would like to create a formatted report ( != from html printout)  that
> contains some or all of these "show" pages. It would take as
parameter the
> result of a filter (ex: all the movies of a given category) and then each
> page of the report would give the required set of information (ex: movie
> name, category, reviews [1-3], page number, ...).
>  
>  Anyone has done this successfully?
>  
>  Nicolas
>  
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