From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2007-04-28T07:19:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for thoughts and opinions on Ruport, and reporting in Ruby in general.


On Apr 27, 2007, at 4:38 PM, Gregory Brown wrote:
> I've been asking folks on the Ruport list for a syntax (even
> imaginary, so long as it's valid ruby) for doing this in a general
> way, and I've unfortunately yet to see anything.  Maybe folks on this
> list will have some insight.

Perhaps it would help to have some examples of the types of reports
you are trying to generate. It doesn't matter where they are from, just
some use cases to spark some ideas on how to describe
the transformations needed to get from the raw data to the resulting
reports.

If you can find an online manual for IBM's RPG IV programming language
that might give you some inspiration.  RPG was designed specifically
for generating reports and goes all the way back to punch card days.
Obviously you don't want to replicate the syntax of the language, but
perhaps there are some ideas there that could help.

Gary Wright