root/ruport-www/ruport.html

Revision 1249, 6.1 kB (checked in by mikem836, 10 months ago)

book announce

Line 
1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
2     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
3
4 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
5 <head>
6   <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
7   <title>Ruby Reports</title>
8   <link href="ruport.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
9   <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
10   </script>
11   <script type="text/javascript">
12   _uacct = "UA-2193841-1";
13   urchinTracker();
14   </script>
15 </head>
16
17 <body>
18   <div id="wrapper">
19     <div id="mainNav">
20       <ul>
21         <li><a href="ruport.html">Overview</a></li>             
22         <li><a href="examples.html">Examples</a></li> 
23         <li><a href="http://api.rubyreports.org/">API Docs</a></li>
24         <li><a href="http://ruportbook.com">Book</a></li>
25         <li><a href="http://list.rubyreports.org">Mailing List</a></li>
26         <li><a href="resources.html">Resources</a></li> 
27         <li><a href="http://code.rubyreports.org">Development</a></li>
28       </ul>
29     </div>
30     <div id="logo">
31       <h1><span>Ruport: Ruby Reports</span></h1>
32       <h2>A simple, extensible reporting system built for Rubyists</h2>
33     </div>
34     <div id="mainContent">
35
36 <h2>Simplify Your Reporting Tasks</h2>
37
38 <p>
39 Reports come in all flavours, but the code to generate them usually
40 only comes in one: <i>monotony</i>.  From simple data transformations to
41 highly customized printable reports, you are often faced with a
42 dilemma:  Use a canned solution at the cost of full control, or begin
43 coding acres of glue code to tie together all the tools you'll need.
44 Of course, there is another option, and that is Ruby Reports.
45 </p>
46
47 <h2>A Unique Approach to Reporting</h2>
48
49 <p>
50 There are other reporting solutions out there that claim they have the
51 answer to all your business reporting problems.  We're not in the
52 business of competing with those folks.  In fact, you'll find that the
53 core of Ruby Reports, <b>ruport</b>, focuses almost entirely on the
54 underplumbing.</p>
55
56 <p>
57 We provide standard data structures to allow you to
58 easily compare data from any number of sources, including CSV files,
59 ActiveRecord backed databases, and even raw SQL queries against legacy
60 databases.  We also provide an extremely malleable formatting system
61 that lays the foundations for PDF,CSV,HTML,and Text based reports.  To
62 help get you off the ground floor, we're also actively maintaining a
63 utilities package, <b>ruport-util</b>, which provides support for a range of
64 higher level features, such as invoice generation, report mailing,
65 graphing, code generation, and additional output formats.
66 </p>
67
68 <p>
69 Although you won't find canned reports to do drill downs or data cubes
70 or any other specific task in Ruby Reports, you'll find that we've
71 made the sharpest knives in the drawer available to you.  Instead of
72 spending your time building a foundation, you can quickly mix and
73 match our components, and then immediately begin to focus on your actual
74 task.
75 </p>
76
77 <h2>Getting Started</h2>
78
79 <p>
80 The ruport and ruport-util packages are distributed as RubyGems so
81 installation is a snap:
82 </p>
83
84 <pre>
85   gem install ruport -y
86  
87   gem install ruport-util -y
88 </pre>
89
90 <p>
91 To get a feel for how Ruport works, you may want to have a look at
92 some <a href="examples.html">simple examples</a>. 
93 </p><p>
94 We have also written <a href="http://ruportbook.com">a free-content book</a>,
95 which covers a range of topics and is updated regularly.  The book is now available for purchase from <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/1700117">Lulu Marketplace</a>.  Once
96 you've got your feet wet, you'll find the <a href="http://api.rubyreports.org">API documentation</a>
97  and our <a href="resources.html">other resources</a> helpful. 
98 </p><p>
99 Please feel free to drop by the <a href="http://list.rubyreports.org">Ruport
100 mailing list</a> with any questions, problems, or suggestions.
101 </p>
102     </div>
103     <div id="secondaryContent">
104      
105       <h2>News</h2>
106       <p><a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/1700117">Ruport Book now available!</a></p>
107       <p><a
108         href="http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-reports/browse_thread/thread/f20890a5f5c60d7a">Ruport
109         1.4 (2007.12.25)</a></p>
110       <p><a href="http://ruportbook.com/pre_order.html">Ruport Book now accepting pre-orders!</a></p>
111       <p><a
112         href="http://rubyreports.org/presentations/ruport-ruby-east.pdf">RubyEast
113         Presentation Slides (2007.09.28)</a></p>
114       <p><a href="release_notes-1.2.html">Ruport 1.2 (2007.08.28)</a></p>
115       <p><a href="http://code.rubyreports.org">code.rubyreports.org
116         Launched (2007.07.12)</a></p>
117       <p><a
118         href="http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-reports/browse_thread/thread/f796091ec44b3a16">Ruport
119         1.0.1 (2007.06.12)</p>
120       <p><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-reports/browse_thread/thread/b2c12c2c1cb6d11c">
121           ruport-util 0.7 (2007.06.07)</a></p>   
122       <p><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-reports/browse_thread/thread/18bbbebd5ab0deff">
123           ruport-util 0.6 (2007.05.30)</a></p>
124       <p><a href="http://www.blog.rubyreports.org/archives/68">Ruby Reports
125         Documentation Effort Launches</a></p>
126       <p><a href="release_notes-1.0.html">1.0 Released! 2007.05.14</a></p>
127       <p><a href="http://www.blog.rubyreports.org/archives/66">Mailing list
128         summary (05/07-05/13)</a></p>
129       <p><a href="http://www.blog.rubyreports.org/archives/63">Mailing list
130         summary (04/30-05/06)</a></p>
131       <p><a
132         href="http://stonecode.svnrepository.com/ruport/trac.cgi/wiki/PdfProxy">pdf_writer_proxy
133         0.1.0</a></p>
134     </div>
135     <div id="footer">
136       <p>
137         Ruby Reports is free software under the
138         <a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt">License of Ruby</a>.
139       </p>
140       <p>
141         Site designed by Michael Milner.
142         Ruport logo designed by
143         <a href="http://fashionpirat.de/">Daniel Dormann</a>.
144       </p>
145       <p>
146         All web content is licensed under the
147         <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative
148         Commons Attribution-Sharealike License</a>.
149       </p>
150     </div>
151   </div>
152 </body>
153 </html>
Note: See TracBrowser for help on using the browser.