From: Greg Brown <greg7224@...>
Date: 2005-08-12T00:06:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby report generation tool

> Funny you should mention it.  I've created a generic reporting framework
> for use at work.

<snip project details>

>Any reports that wanted special formatting like that I would probably handle
>separately, or create a subclass that handled it.

<snip>

> Anyway, is something like that sorta what you had in mind?  I never
> released it because I kinda figured everyone liked to do reporting their
> own way.  No?

Yes.  Everyone does like to do reporting their own way :)
Ruport's goal will be to facilitate this, not get in the way of it.

I'm basically going to collect all the little things we all need to do
that get annoying and put them together in a generic framework so that
you can have the low level drudgery done for you and focus on the
actual task.  This is similarly inspired by Jame's HighLine library and
it's purpose.  Ruport is not going to be a massively heavy
auto-generator, just a tool to help along the way.

If you publish your code, I know you'll have at least two people
playing with it already.
If you do so, I encourage you to be nice and make it GPL compliant so I
can steal all your good ideas.

As far as the PDF example goes... that was a pretty bad example.  I
promise a good one once Ruport is more well formed ;)