From: Jacob Quinn Shenker <jqshenker@...>
Date: 2005-10-11T14:24:04+09:00
Subject: Re: ruports + RMagick = CrystalReports?

That's a neat idea. It's definitely possible with Ruby. RMagick is afantastic piece of code. I love it. Really, I do. I don't have anyexperience with Ruports, though, so someone else will have to fill youin on that aspect. Incidentally, I'm just beginning (today!) on asimple RMagick-based graphing library for a commercial RoR project.Anyway, good luck! Keep us posted.
Jacob
On 10/10/05, Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@it.fts-vn.com> wrote:> I've been browsing around the ruby eco-system, trying to put together an> idea of exactly when/where I'd be prepared to use Ruby on projects at work.>> So far I've only done some file munging tasks (basically using Ruby as a> glorified sed/awk).  Looking at the last Quiz and finding ruports, and> knowing that for a lot of the websites that we have to do here, Rails is> perfectly adequate, the main missing piece (for basic database-backed> websites) is for "Crystal Reports">> Customers always seem to want some form of reporting feature and they> invariably reference Crystal I supose as it's the de-facto.>> Having (very recently) struggled with Crystal XI integration with a> Java/Spring/Hibernate project, I never want to touch it again - all the> documents suck and it is very much focused on Microsoft integration -> which is really useless for 99% of teh projects we do here.>> On the other hand I think it would be possible to do most of the reports> that customers ever need with RMagick + Ruports.  Now I'm very> inexperienced with Ruby + it's libraries, so I could be way off here,> but would it be possile to use a dataset to create a chart?  A simple> graph, or a pie chart I would think  would be possible.>> If this would be possible, then one more barrier against using Ruby here> will go and make it much more easy to convince people to let us trial Ruby>> Thoughts?> Kev>>