# Any Ruby Reports (ruports) Examples Out There

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**Created:** [September 22, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-ruby-reports-ruports-examples-out-there/69627 "2006-09-22T14:17:05Z")\
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I’m starting to experiment with Ruby Reports. Are there any real world  
examples out there than one would like to share? Having an example to  
compare back to the rdoc would be a lot of help to me in learning this  
beast. What kind of examples? How about galley listings,  
summarizations, multiple group level reports, or matrices. Typical  
business stuff you would typically do in Excel, but would be so much  
simpler by scripting a report.

Thanks for your time,  
dvn

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**Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-ruby-reports-ruports-examples-out-there/69627/2 "2006-09-22T16:37:32Z")

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On 9/22/06, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I’m starting to experiment with Ruby Reports. Are there any real world  
> examples out there than one would like to share? Having an example to  
> compare back to the rdoc would be a lot of help to me in learning this  
> beast. What kind of examples? How about galley listings,  
> summarizations, multiple group level reports, or matrices. Typical  
> business stuff you would typically do in Excel, but would be so much  
> simpler by scripting a report.

This is a very common question among new Ruport users. Many folks are  
looking to do complex data manipulations such as the ones you  
mentioned, so we certainly acknowledge the need! Unfortunately we’ve  
been spending most of our time on the lower level plumbing, focusing  
on the system as a whole in the past few months.

We are now in a good position to add in support for things similar to  
what you have mentioned. I personally have done almost all of those  
things and used Ruport for one part or another, but typically this  
involved a lot of very specific glue and some ugly hack and slash kind  
of stuff.

We do have some examples, but most of them show how to use things like  
the SQL support, or the formatting system. Data manipulations one of  
the next big targets on the radar, and we’re ready to start discussing  
how things might work.

One thing that might interest you is that by 0.6.0, Ruport will have  
support for aging reports, so this will involve some grouping code,  
especially related to date ranges and things like that.

If you’d like, please either drop by #ruport on Freenode or sign up  
for the Ruport mailing list, and we can start talking about your  
specific needs, and perhaps mock up how you’d like an interface to  
look.

[http://lists.stonecode.org/listinfo.cgi/ruport-stonecode.org](http://lists.stonecode.org/listinfo.cgi/ruport-stonecode.org)

We are learning as we go the reporting is a BIG problem, so we need  
all the help we can get.

Hope to hear from you soon!  
-Greg