# Simple report in Ruport! Difficult! **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 29, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simple-report-in-ruport-difficult/154435 "2008-11-29T16:40:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rudy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@rudy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rudy)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simple-report-in-ruport-difficult/154435/1 "2008-11-29T16:40:34Z")
Hi, I’m not a total newbie in RoR, and thought to change to Ruport for reporting. Bought the book, read the fora (my candidacy for the Ruport\_forum is still pending) but cannot make out how to do it. Situation is fairly simple: I want a nice formatted text-document for download. I have one record, and want to devide the fields over a few tables, and generate the tables on one page. Multiple tables, according to the book. Controller = … @visit=Visit.zoek\_verslag(visit) now this @visit contains a Name\_field and a Meeting\_field. I want the Name\_field in a first table with 1 cell, and under that table the second table with the Meeting\_field in one cell. Should not be difficult, but… I must admit, I’ve been trying to figure it out for days now, but I can’t get anything close to it. Although I fortunately found a simple article about Ruport on O’Reilly, and got some little bit of understanding of it, I’m at the brink of dropping it all together, although I would love to use it. As someone else said here somewhere: a book full of chunks of code, without starting with the basics, is not a very great help for starters. I hope it is not rude, and it surely is not intended to be, but the book feels like written for people who already know all the basics. Could someone give me a clear example of how to do this, or a link to some place that could really explain things? Many many thanks.