# Ruport In 10 Minutes (was Looking for thoughts and opinions **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 28, 2007, 3:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruport-in-10-minutes-was-looking-for-thoughts-and-opinions/93139 "2007-04-28T03:29:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [April 28, 2007, 3:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruport-in-10-minutes-was-looking-for-thoughts-and-opinions/93139/1 "2007-04-28T03:29:37Z")
On 4/27/07, Lyle J. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > But I guess what > I would love to see on that page (or elsewhere) is a really basic, > “Ruport in 10 minutes” kind of tutorial, with even a trivial data set, > that walks you through the process of generating a report. > **[ruport-in-10.pdf](https://rubyreports.org/docs/ruport-in-10.pdf)** > > 11.55 KB This has to be the strangest thing I’ve ever created. To credit the source of the data set and problem, it is from Alice Fischer’s C++ course at University of New Haven. To credit the terrible pacman ghost… I drew it… I hope it doesn’t cause me to be sued. 😛 ---
**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:** [April 28, 2007, 4:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruport-in-10-minutes-was-looking-for-thoughts-and-opinions/93139/2 "2007-04-28T04:56:40Z")
Gregory, If I wanted to create an “enterprise dashboard” that laid out a collection of tables and charts on a single (web?) page would Ruport be the right tool? Peter B. On Apr 27, 2007, at 9:28 PM, Gregory B. wrote: > To credit the source of the data set and problem, it is from Alice > Fischer’s C++ course at University of New Haven. > > To credit the terrible pacman ghost… I drew it… I hope it doesn’t > cause me to be sued. 😛 Peter B. removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid 917 445 5663 ---
**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:** [April 28, 2007, 5:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruport-in-10-minutes-was-looking-for-thoughts-and-opinions/93139/3 "2007-04-28T05:11:42Z")
On 4/27/07, Peter B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Gregory, > > If I wanted to create an “enterprise dashboard” that laid out a > collection of > tables and charts on a single (web?) page would Ruport be the right > tool? I’m not sure, really. I do think that Ruport could be helpful for that, especially if you’re doing a bunch of ActiveRecord stuff. acts\_as\_reportable is pretty good at getting your data into a standard, easily manipulatable form, so even if you can’t make use of our built in formatting support or the tools we have in ruport-util, you can still gain something there. If you end up needing to talk to a bunch of different libraries to build such an app, the biggest thing Ruport does for you is once you wrap the libs, you get a standard formatting interface. This gets to be really powerful, because it means all your process code stays independent of the formatting code. That’s really the core of Ruport does. It takes disjoint parts and mallets them together, and tries to make it easy to do that. There is very little it does as a toolset that can’t be done without it, but I really do see (at least in my own work), the benefits of having a structured system to work with. The problem you are describing is a super common interest among our users. I really wish some of you would get together and build something that does this! (Whether it uses Ruport or not.) Once things get rolling, I’d be happy to try to help make Ruport a comfortable fit for things like this, and support it however I can. But to sum it up, Ruport offers a pretty blank canvas to start with, so it’s not going to make any particular task a dream. It’s just meant to keep you from having nightmares. 🙂 The person to talk to about web based stuff is not me, but Mike Milner. He may not be subbed here, but he’s active on the Ruport list and would be happy to field these kinds of questions. warm regards, -gregory