# Ruby Reports 0.8

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-reports-0-8/84411>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 4, 2007, 3:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-reports-0-8/84411 "2007-02-04T03:29:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naething)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 3:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-reports-0-8/84411/1 "2007-02-04T03:29:42Z")

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= Ruby Reports 0.8 : The “Evil Goldberg” Edition

After nearly 100 changesets since 0.7.0, Ruport 0.8 is now ready.  
This release features a number of enhancements to our formatting  
system, lots of fun data manipulation features, and general spiffiness  
all around.

Thanks to the folks who helped out with this one!

== What is Ruport?

A simple reporting framework that helps your organize your code to  
keep it DRY and also provides the basic tools necessary to build your  
applications. (data acquisition, arrangement and manipulation,  
presentation, delivery, etc.)

== New in this Release

From the CHANGELOG:

changes since 0.7.2

- Added a number of new data manipulation functions including  
subtables, column operations, and custom Record classes.

- Added several helper functions for rendering in the PDF  
format, including image and rounded text box support.

- Added class level syntactic sugar for renderers, to simplify  
custom format extensions

- Improved our Rope code generation tool by adding file generation  
traces, additional rake tasks, and better errors.

- Fixed a number of bugs and improved documentation

- Included several new samples in examples/ dir

- For a list of backwards incompatible changes, see:  
[http://tinyurl.com/6](http://tinyurl.com/6)

== Get It

gem install ruport -y

== Learn More ==

API Docs : [api.rubyreports.org](http://api.rubyreports.org)  
Mailing List : [list.rubyreports.org](http://list.rubyreports.org)  
Trac: [code.rubyreports.org](http://code.rubyreports.org)  
Blog: [blog.rubyreports.org](http://blog.rubyreports.org)

== Acknowledgements ==

The following folks had a hand in this release, in one way or another:

Dudley F., James H., Dinko Mehinovic, James Edward G. II,  
Mike Milner, Chris C., Stefan M., Daniel Einspanjer, Evan  
Weaver, Paul N., Greg Gibson, Skip Shuda

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**Author:** ![naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@naething](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/naething)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 3:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-reports-0-8/84411/2 "2007-02-04T03:36:45Z")

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On 2/3/07, Gregory B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> - For a list of backwards incompatible changes, see:  
> [http://tinyurl.com/6](http://tinyurl.com/6)

That was some map to minnesota. Whoops.

[http://tinyurl.com/39rpmq](http://tinyurl.com/39rpmq)