From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2009-09-08T01:48:13+09:00
Subject: Re: FasterCSV (faster_csv) and Question of understanding

On Sep 7, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Dot Baiki wrote:

> I got a question for you: I need to produce a Ruby code which does the
> following:
>
> 1. I get a CSV file (more or less like this:
> name,id,in,out,ot,ab,x1,x2,x3,x4)
> 2. I need to remove some columns (like the x1..x3)
> 3. I need to group them per user (in this case either name or id)
> 4. I need to add columns like salary (which I have to calculate first)
> 5. I need to add a row with the monthly salary
> 6. and... a PDF to print this correctly
>
> And now? Ruby + FasterCSV + ???PDF???

FasterCSV can definitely help you read an manipulate the data as you  
have described.

> Please, do not come up with Ruport because I tried this for 7 days  
> now.
> success = 0

Have your tried handling the PDF generation using Prawn (http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/ 
)?  Hopefully it can do what you need.

James Edward Gray II