Rails - Sep 2006 - Generating reports in rails? Reinventing the wheel?

Is there a plugin or code somewhere that makes creating reports in rails 
easy?

Basically I just want to run reports based off of data in a database. 
What would be optimal, in my opinion, is a page where you could select 1 
or more database tables, select the columns for those tables, and then 
select the various actions you would like to perform on those columns. 
You hit submit and it creates tables and/or graphs based on your 
specifications.

I could do this, but it seems like it would be a decent amount of work, 
I would prefer not to reinvent the wheel here. So if anyone knows of 
anything similar please let me know.

Thanks a lot for your help.

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it''s not quite what you''re looking for but check out ruport

On 9/1/06, Ben Johnson
<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
>
> Is there a plugin or code somewhere that makes creating reports in rails
> easy?
>
> Basically I just want to run reports based off of data in a database.
> What would be optimal, in my opinion, is a page where you could select 1
> or more database tables, select the columns for those tables, and then
> select the various actions you would like to perform on those columns.
> You hit submit and it creates tables and/or graphs based on your
> specifications.
>
> I could do this, but it seems like it would be a decent amount of work,
> I would prefer not to reinvent the wheel here. So if anyone knows of
> anything similar please let me know.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> >
>

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> Is there a plugin or code somewhere that makes creating 
> reports in rails easy?
You may want to try Ruby Reports. It''s not Rails code, but
it''s the raw
tools to do what you want.

http://ruport.infogami.com/

Fromthe site:

Ruby Reports is a software library that aims to make the task of
reporting less tedious and painful. It provides tools for data
acquisition, database interaction, formatting, and parsing/munging.
Designed to be extensible, it is possible to use Ruport for quick
specific tasks as well as to build robust reporting applications. 

- Mark.


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How about: http://www.openrpt.com/

the only question is if RPTRender can be executed from command line.
The output of this app is a PDF file which you could stream to the
client. I haven''t had time to experiment with it yet, but will so by
the end of the month...

Rafael



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