Rails - Jul 2006 - Printed/PDF Reports (Text/Tabular/Summary) in Rails

The recent discussion about different graphing solutions made me  
think. What is everyone using for general reports? Currently I have a  
web based application at work that has roughly 20 different reports  
ranging from simple tabular data with totaling at the bottom to  
pretty, colorized, graphic logo''s,etc... going to clients, and  
finally complex ones I hate to think about such as medical forms.

The app is currently written in Python and I use ReportLab. I am  
slowly replacing that app with rails, converting one section at a  
time into logical rails controllers. So right now, some "modules" are
rails, most are still python, including the reporting side of things.

Any suggestions? I have used FOP in the past and there is no way it''s  
powerful enough for some of the things we do. In some synarios, we  
really had to push the limits of ReportLab (and sometimes confined by  
them).

Thanks!

Jeremy

Jeremy ...

I have been using the Eclipse BIRT project to create my runtime reports 
for ROR applications.  Eclipse BIRT needs Tomcat (or other J2EE server) 
to host.  I use ROR as the front end to capture any filter requirements 
that the user has, then I call BIRT with the appropriate filter 
parameters and additional tags to produce HTML or PDF report.

Hope this helps ...

DC

Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> The recent discussion about different graphing solutions made me
> think. What is everyone using for general reports? Currently I have a
> web based application at work that has roughly 20 different reports
> ranging from simple tabular data with totaling at the bottom to
> pretty, colorized, graphic logo''s,etc... going to clients, and
> finally complex ones I hate to think about such as medical forms.
> 
> The app is currently written in Python and I use ReportLab. I am
> slowly replacing that app with rails, converting one section at a
> time into logical rails controllers. So right now, some "modules"
are
> rails, most are still python, including the reporting side of things.
> 
> Any suggestions? I have used FOP in the past and there is no way
it''s
> powerful enough for some of the things we do. In some synarios, we
> really had to push the limits of ReportLab (and sometimes confined by
> them).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jeremy

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DC...

I am also struggling with integration of BIRT into an ROR project that I 
am working on.. But it seems like there is no or very little 
documentation or resource online for reference.. Can you please point me 
in the right direction here.. I would really appreciate any help..

Thanks

Anooj

DC wrote:
> Jeremy ...
> 
> I have been using the Eclipse BIRT project to create my runtime reports 
> for ROR applications.  Eclipse BIRT needs Tomcat (or other J2EE server) 
> to host.  I use ROR as the front end to capture any filter requirements 
> that the user has, then I call BIRT with the appropriate filter 
> parameters and additional tags to produce HTML or PDF report.
> 
> Hope this helps ...
> 
> DC
> 
> Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
>> The recent discussion about different graphing solutions made me
>> think. What is everyone using for general reports? Currently I have a
>> web based application at work that has roughly 20 different reports
>> ranging from simple tabular data with totaling at the bottom to
>> pretty, colorized, graphic logo''s,etc... going to clients, and
>> finally complex ones I hate to think about such as medical forms.
>> 
>> The app is currently written in Python and I use ReportLab. I am
>> slowly replacing that app with rails, converting one section at a
>> time into logical rails controllers. So right now, some
"modules" are
>> rails, most are still python, including the reporting side of things.
>> 
>> Any suggestions? I have used FOP in the past and there is no way
it''s
>> powerful enough for some of the things we do. In some synarios, we
>> really had to push the limits of ReportLab (and sometimes confined by
>> them).
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Jeremy
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Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
[...]
> Any suggestions? I have used FOP in the past and there is no way
it''s
> powerful enough for some of the things we do. In some synarios, we
> really had to push the limits of ReportLab (and sometimes confined by
> them).
I doubt extremely that FOP isn''t powerful enough.  FO can handle just 
about any layout you''d care to throw at it.  But its syntax is pretty 
awful.

I''d suggest looking at one of the many Ruby PDF libraries or a tool
like
wkhtmltopdf.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jeremy
Best,
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I just started using Prawn. It''s in alpha but it''s already
pretty
usefull. Table lay-outs neatly reproduce themselves over multiple
pages with repeating headers. And that just in 1 line of code!!!
Jan

On May 21, 12:54 am, Marnen Laibow-Koser
<li...-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Any suggestions? I have used FOP in the past and there is no way
it''s
> > powerful enough for some of the things we do. In some synarios, we
> > really had to push the limits of ReportLab (and sometimes confined by
> > them).
>
> I doubt extremely that FOP isn''t powerful enough.  FO can handle
just
> about any layout you''d care to throw at it.  But its syntax is
pretty
> awful.
>
> I''d suggest looking at one of the many Ruby PDF libraries or a
tool like
> wkhtmltopdf.
>
>
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > Jeremy
>
> Best,
> --
> Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org
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