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Reporting tool Ruport releases version 1.2

by Werner Schuster on Aug 30, 2007 |

Ruport is an extensible reporting system written and extensible with Ruby. It provides help with the input, with support for a wide range of sources such as CSV or ActiveRecord models and more. The output side is supported by formatters for CSV, HTML or PDF.

Ruport has been gaining in popularity. Projects in need of professional looking reports, for instance, Jeremy McAnally's Google Summer of Code project dcov, use Ruport for formatting their results.

A new release, version 1.2, was just published and it comes with a useful set of improvements. New features in 1.2:

Data::Feeder allows for custom transformations and filters on data

Grouping#sigma added (Thanks Dave Nelson)

Formatter::PDF#draw_text! will draw text at an absolute position, ignoring margins

Formatter::Template provides a simple templating system for renderer options

Users of Ruport interested in upgrading should watch out for the list of breaking changes in 1.2 to see if they need to update their code:

acts_as_reportable now uses real association names

Data::Table constructors now yield Data::Feeder objects instead of Data::Table

append_hash, append_array, and append_record removed from Data::Table

Renderer::Hooks changed signature for renderable_data() to renderable_data(format)

Formatter::PDF#draw_text no longer changes the position of the drawing cursor

Ruport 0.7 style stage building syntax removed
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An ongoing effort is the Ruport Book, a free book complementing the existing Ruport API documentation and demonstrating how to use Ruport. For more projects around Ruport, such as Rails support, see http://code.rubyreports.org/.