== What is ruport-util? ==
A collection of utilities and support libraries for Ruby Reports[0].
It currently has support for:
- Basic Graphing via OpenFlashChart, AmCharts, Gruff and Scruffy (util/
graph) - Report runner (util/report)
- Report Mailing (util/mailer)
- Report Manager (util/report_manager)
- Invoices (util/invoice)
- PDF form helpers (util/pdf/form)
- ODS formatter for tables (util/ods)
- XLS formatter for tables (util/xls)
- Ability to read ODS / XLS into a Ruport table
- Benchmarking Tool (util/bench)
- Ruport centric code generation via the rope command.
- csv to OpenDocument conversion via csv2ods
== What’s new in this release? ==
Thanks to roo and some Ruport hacking by Wes Hays, we now can do
things like this:
t = Table(“foo.ods”)
t = Table(“foo.xls”)
From here, you could use any of the Ruport table operations, and of
course, have access to our entire formatting system:
t.save_as “foo.pdf”
Brian C. has also added a simple patch to make our DBI query
stuff supporting ActiveRecord style conditions.
== Get it ==
gem install ruport-util
== Disclaimer ==
ruport-util is currently a package in flux. Do not expect stability,
completeness, or polish. That having been said, please feel free to
contribute bug reports and patches[1]. Also, if you have an
questions, let us know[2]
Enjoy!
-greg
== Shameless Plug ==
For a comprehensive guide to Ruport, consider reading the Ruport Book
(by Gregory B. & Michael M.)
You can read the whole book online for free, or consider buying a
PDF / Print
copy to support the project.
25% of our revenue goes to a worthy charity that is geek friendly,
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[1]http://code.rubyreports.org/ruport-util
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