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
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 C. 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
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 C. 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
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
Jeremy C. wrote:
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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-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
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