ruport-dev Meeting Notes, 2008.02.07

Please list any questions or topics you'd like to have discussed by Ruport hackers here.

- From Gregory (gregory.t.brown@gmail.com) :

  • Packaging concerns: Considering making ruport a meta-gem, moving to a core/more format, to help synchronize versioning between ruport-util, acts_as_reportable, and core ruport
  • Ruport 1.6 : Let's make a rough timeline and roadmap
  • Ruport Book 1.01 / 1.1 : Will we be updating for 1.6 soon? Just doing bug fixes for now?

- Wes Hays (weshays@gmail.com) :

  • Ruport wrapper methods - Would it be within the scope of Ruport to combine pdf-writer method calls? For example, it would be nice methods such as add_text had an option for setting the color rather then only supporting what pdf-writer supports. This would require that add_text checks for an option such as :color to call pdf_writer.fill_color.
  • Ruport helpers (extensions) - Are there any plans to add the all_pages method to the Ruport core? After all the only method in pdf-helpers is all_pages. If not then what kind of stuff do you envision going into Ruport Helpers?

- Ruport 1.6 Roadmap

  • Finalize and apply patch to speed up build_row
  • Update packaging
  • Add any PDF helpers as per Wes' comments above