From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-04-28T07:36:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for thoughts and opinions on Ruport, and reporting in Ruby in general.

On 4/27/07, Gary Wright <gwtmp01@mac.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

I guess the issue is that I don't run into the problem that often in
ways that I can see Ruport can help.  If I did, I would have
generalized the stuff.

However, to throw the question back out there, it'd be majorly helpful
to see some examples of what you're trying to do, so I can try to
think of how to make it easier to do it.  That's why I'm looking for
imaginary syntax....

(I typically exploit Ruport in ways I wouldn't expect our users to. :) )