# Reports in Rails **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 21, 2006, 11:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reports-in-rails/99267 "2006-07-21T11:38:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jatinder\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@Jatinder\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jatinder_S)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 11:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reports-in-rails/99267/1 "2006-07-21T11:38:37Z")
Hi, In my rails application I want to include a reporting mechanism that will allow the users of application to view statistics of various operations graphically. Does rails provide inbuilt reporting capabilities? what are different appraoches I can follow to achieve reporting in rails? On googling I found following as some of the options, 1.Gruff Graphs for Ruby 2.SVG 3. using Apache FOP. pros/cons for above approaches? Regards, Jatinder ---
**Author:** ![Jatinder\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@Jatinder\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jatinder_S)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 12:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reports-in-rails/99267/2 "2006-07-21T12:36:43Z")
1. SVG - requires a special plugin, which very few people have on their browser. They might be willing to install on your request, but last I looked most SVG players weren’t very neat affairs (I recall one bloated Adobe that wasn’t something I’d gladly install). ---
**Author:** ![Jatinder\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@Jatinder\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jatinder_S)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 2:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reports-in-rails/99267/3 "2006-07-21T14:51:53Z")
Gruff Graphs for Ruby It worked fine for me. –Dibya ---
**Author:** ![Jatinder\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@Jatinder\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jatinder_S)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 3:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reports-in-rails/99267/4 "2006-07-21T15:36:46Z")
> Gruff Graphs for Ruby > I’ve found Gruff breaks quite easily (in the sense that the key will > flow off the image or text will spill off the image, and so on). Gruff > is cool but I really think Ruby / Rails is missing a heavy weight > graphing module. ## -Rob * * * “On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” – Charles Babbage (1791-1871) “98.5% of DNA is considered to be junk DNA with no known purpose. Maybe it’s XML tags.” – Anon [http://www.robhulme.com/](http://www.robhulme.com/) > **[robhu](https://robhu.livejournal.com/)** > > robhu - the new blog in LiveJournal. There should be new interesting records soon. ---
**Author:** ![Jatinder\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@Jatinder\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jatinder_S)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 4:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reports-in-rails/99267/5 "2006-07-21T16:02:35Z")
RMagick is pretty heavy weight graphing modules which comes with rvg API [http://www.imagemagick.org/RMagick/doc/rvgtut.html](http://www.imagemagick.org/RMagick/doc/rvgtut.html) On 7/21/06, Robert H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) ## – Kent > **[DATANOISE.COM](https://www.datanoise.com/)** > > DATANOISE.COM - Contact us for any business inquiries ---
**Author:** ![Jatinder\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@Jatinder\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jatinder_S)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reports-in-rails/99267/6 "2006-07-21T16:43:30Z")
I’ve been using the Eclipse BIRT project to build reports with my ROR applications. You need to setup Tomcat to host the BIRT application. Once done, I have the ROR application act as the front end allowing the user to setup any filters for the reports and then I simply call BIRT with the parameters of the filters and whether to run as HTML report or PDF. Works like a charm … DC Jatinder S. wrote: > Hi, > > In my rails application I want to include a reporting mechanism that > will > allow the users of application to view statistics of various operations > graphically. > Does rails provide inbuilt reporting capabilities? what are different > appraoches I can follow to achieve reporting in rails? > On googling I found following as some of the options, > 1.Gruff Graphs for Ruby > 2.SVG > 3. using Apache FOP. > > pros/cons for above approaches? > > Regards, > Jatinder