From: Ralf Mueller <ralf.mueller@...>
Date: 2009-09-08T03:49:14+09:00
Subject: Re: FasterCSV (faster_csv) and Question of understanding

Dot Baiki wrote:
> Dear Experts,
>
> 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???
>
> Please, do not come up with Ruport because I tried this for 7 days now.
> success = 0
>
> Are there better solutions (please no Jasper, OpenRPT etc.)
>
> Regards,
> Baiki
>   
I wrote a CSV-handling library for similar purposes (e.g. grouping, 
extcsv.rubyforge.org). Maybe it's helpfull.
In case you use it and run into problems, drop me a line.

regards
Ralf