Rails - Dec 2009 - Printserver / User-Customizable Template-System / OpenOffice

Hi everybody,

I''m writing mostly company internal software and I am happily using
rails for this.
This time I need a system that enables the users to modify printable
Documents themselves.
The old system (over 10 years now, written with Access 97 ;) ) used
Word for this and Access to call Word and then print documents. They
have something like ''#firstname'' tags in their documents that
are
replaced with the dynamic values.

So here the question:
1. Is there already some system I could use/modify for this?

if not:

I''ll write one!

1. Where should/could I post this project, as I''d like to see this as
free software (already asked, company is fine with this!)
2. Has anyone else interest in using this (i''m not yet asking for
developers ;)
3. Any suggestions? My plans are:
- writing a Java Applikation, that runs on the clients computer, and
will connect to the rails-app, OpenOffice and the printers (configs
for individual printers go here) (lets call it document generator and
printserver .. dgp?)
- I''ll config templates with available models-fields in the rails app
- I''ll trigger Document-generation via the rails-app to the document
generator
- i''ll allow upload of oo-documents in the rails-app, allow config
which paper-type / preprint should be used
- the rails app creates on print-request some kind of print-job-
configuration (like customer-id, template-id and stuff, actually all
the data that might be used in the template) and sends it to the dgp
- the dgp gets the config and data, downloads the template, replaces
the variables and then prints to the printer according to the
requested paper-type (specific printer and/or tray)

.. yeah, that''s some kind of plan :)

I anyway need to program this withing the next 2 month, but i''ll
gladly hear some suggestions, ideas, improvements or alternatives!

cu,

Jan Kechel

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Rather use C# and save yourself a lot of headaches... not that Ruby cant do
it... just think about the best tool for the job.

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Jan Kechel
<jan-w7Y1NzyPwhmzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I''m writing mostly company internal software and I am happily
using
> rails for this.
> This time I need a system that enables the users to modify printable
> Documents themselves.
> The old system (over 10 years now, written with Access 97 ;) ) used
> Word for this and Access to call Word and then print documents. They
> have something like ''#firstname'' tags in their documents
that are
> replaced with the dynamic values.
>
> So here the question:
> 1. Is there already some system I could use/modify for this?
>
> if not:
>
> I''ll write one!
>
> 1. Where should/could I post this project, as I''d like to see this
as
> free software (already asked, company is fine with this!)
> 2. Has anyone else interest in using this (i''m not yet asking for
> developers ;)
> 3. Any suggestions? My plans are:
> - writing a Java Applikation, that runs on the clients computer, and
> will connect to the rails-app, OpenOffice and the printers (configs
> for individual printers go here) (lets call it document generator and
> printserver .. dgp?)
> - I''ll config templates with available models-fields in the rails
app
> - I''ll trigger Document-generation via the rails-app to the
document
> generator
> - i''ll allow upload of oo-documents in the rails-app, allow config
> which paper-type / preprint should be used
> - the rails app creates on print-request some kind of print-job-
> configuration (like customer-id, template-id and stuff, actually all
> the data that might be used in the template) and sends it to the dgp
> - the dgp gets the config and data, downloads the template, replaces
> the variables and then prints to the printer according to the
> requested paper-type (specific printer and/or tray)
>
> .. yeah, that''s some kind of plan :)
>
> I anyway need to program this withing the next 2 month, but i''ll
> gladly hear some suggestions, ideas, improvements or alternatives!
>
> cu,
>
> Jan Kechel
>
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So no one would have interest in this?

About the right tool for the right job. C# instead of Java? Or did you
mean C# instead of the whole RoR app?

cu,

jan

On Dec 12, 8:27 pm, Johan De Klerk
<johandk...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Rather use C# and save yourself a lot of headaches... not that Ruby cant do
> it... just think about the best tool for the job.
>
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Jan Kechel
<j...-w7Y1NzyPwhmzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
>
> > I''m writing mostly company internal software and I am happily
using
> > rails for this.
> > This time I need a system that enables the users to modify printable
> > Documents themselves.
> > The old system (over 10 years now, written with Access 97 ;) ) used
> > Word for this and Access to call Word and then print documents. They
> > have something like ''#firstname'' tags in their
documents that are
> > replaced with the dynamic values.
>
> > So here the question:
> > 1. Is there already some system I could use/modify for this?
>
> > if not:
>
> > I''ll write one!
>
> > 1. Where should/could I post this project, as I''d like to see
this as
> > free software (already asked, company is fine with this!)
> > 2. Has anyone else interest in using this (i''m not yet asking
for
> > developers ;)
> > 3. Any suggestions? My plans are:
> > - writing a Java Applikation, that runs on the clients computer, and
> > will connect to the rails-app, OpenOffice and the printers (configs
> > for individual printers go here) (lets call it document generator and
> > printserver .. dgp?)
> > - I''ll config templates with available models-fields in the
rails app
> > - I''ll trigger Document-generation via the rails-app to the
document
> > generator
> > - i''ll allow upload of oo-documents in the rails-app, allow
config
> > which paper-type / preprint should be used
> > - the rails app creates on print-request some kind of print-job-
> > configuration (like customer-id, template-id and stuff, actually all
> > the data that might be used in the template) and sends it to the dgp
> > - the dgp gets the config and data, downloads the template, replaces
> > the variables and then prints to the printer according to the
> > requested paper-type (specific printer and/or tray)
>
> > .. yeah, that''s some kind of plan :)
>
> > I anyway need to program this withing the next 2 month, but
i''ll
> > gladly hear some suggestions, ideas, improvements or alternatives!
>
> > cu,
>
> > Jan Kechel
>
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