From: Dossy Date: 2002-09-02T03:20:11+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby jobs On 2002.09.02, Tom Sawyer wrote: > On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 09:57, Dossy wrote: > > Funny, speaking of Ruby jobs, right now I'm paid by one of my > > clients to write reports in Ruby. They're all very printable. > > For the one report that needed finer-grain control, it generates > > a PDF using pdflib and the Ruby bindings for it ... > > that's not funny at all! in fact you may have made my day! could you > elaborate a little more on how you create these reports. Ruby/DBI talking to an Oracle data warehouse, shoveling the data through a utility class we developed, then finally spitting out the resulting output (with some formatting hints and layout templating) to a PDF document. That PDF document then is made available via the client extranet for the client to download, view and/or print. The client is very happy. > i thought pdflib was a commercial product, not open source. ? i have to > take another look. There's nothing wrong with using commercial, non-open software, if it does the job and there is no better non-commercial, open source alternative. People need to earn a living, you know ... -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)