From: Peter Versteegen <pversteegen@...>
Date: 2007-08-23T21:09:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Pretty Printing

Ari,

Had not come across Ruport.  Sounds interesting, especially since I  
have to do a lot of reporting. I will investigate further.

Thanks,


Peter


On Aug 22, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Ari Brown wrote:

> Ruby Reports. Ruport. Check it out.
>
> On Aug 22, 2007, at 7:21 AM, Peter Versteegen wrote:
>
>> # Hi,
>>
>> # I need some help in simplefying my life
>> # I need to create lots of tables from arrays and I need to provide
>> # each of the columns with a heading.  For eample, I have
>> # two headings "a-value" and "b-value" specified as follows:
>> a = ["a-value", "b-value"]
>> b = [10, 10]
>> # The array b contains the width of the field, so that I get:
>> #   a-value   b-value
>> # Two ways to do this are as follows:
>> puts "#{'a-value'.rjust(10)}#{'b-value'.rjust(10)}"
>> puts "#{a[0].rjust(b[0])}#{a[1].rjust(b[1])}"
>>
>> # which is difficult to debug, so that I'm looking for
>> # a simpler process, specificaly by writing a function.
>> # The following one works:
>>
>> def heading2(x, n)
>>   x.length.times do |i|
>>     print "#{x[i].rjust(n[i])}"
>>   end
>>   print "\n\n"
>> end
>>
>> puts
>> heading2(a,b)
>>
>> # But this approach doesn't.  Why not? Are there other ways to  
>> make this simpler?
>>
>> def heading1(x, n)
>>   s = ""
>>   x.length.times do |i|
>>     s = s + "\#{\'" + x[i] + "\'.rjust(" + n[i].to_s + ")}"
>>   end
>>   p s
>>   print s
>>   puts s
>>   return s
>> end
>>
>> heading1(a,b)
>> puts "#{heading1(a, b)}"
>> puts "\"#{heading1(a, b)}\""
>>
>>
>> # Thanks ahead. (NOTE: This file can be run from TextMate)
>>
>>
>>
>> Peter Versteegen
>> pversteegen@gcnetmail.net
>>
>>
>>
>>
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