Ruby on Rails Report Generator

Question

Hi There.

Is there a way that I can produce a report in RoR without using Ruport or any other report generator rails plugin?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

There is nothing magical about a "report", you can create your own view which calculates summary data in whatever type of visualization you might need.

Answer 2

I gave my Spanish railsconf talk about that:

http://www.slideshare.net/ferdinand13/el-ferrocarril-contra-los-arboles-muertos2 (Spanish)

You have a handful of options, any of which is a silver bullet.

I am very pleased with wicked-pdf lately.

I hope this helps you, sorry the slides are in spanish, but code samples should serve you to get an idea.

Answer 3

You can try to use Jasper Report as your report backend processing. You can design your report with Jasper's web interface and programmatically call Jasper's processing tools.

Have a look here.

I hope it'll help.

Answer 4

Hi, I have not used RoR much. But I have used FastReports for quite some now. I would suggest you give it a try and see how it fits your needs.