Gregory Brown and Ruport ( and now Prawn ) are very cool. Be patient and examine their landscape and you'll find a complete solution. The weird thing about the Ruby on Rails landscape is that most developers are working on websites where printing is only a print.css approach. For those few building business model applications you must part from the pack. David
On Apr 27, 11:23 am, LaughingNinja <glacker...@wetdesign.com> wrote: > What do you recommend for reports using Rub?. I looked into ruport and > it seems very clunky and from what I read is dying. > > On Apr 27, 7:00 am, InventoryTrackers <inventorytrack...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Tushar, > > I spent about a month trying to get iReport and JasperReports working > > with Rails and it is just a ridiculous fit. > > Firstly, I identified ONE PERSON who had actually got this working in > > Helena Montana and he strongly cautioned me to avoid this approach at > > all costs. > > > Secondly, in the reports I developed I found that only simply one > > level reports are possible. If you are not using JDBC you can only > > access the simplest data structures. > > > The person who wrote the "Rails with JasperReports" never really got > > it to work in the first place. > > > The guy who wrote iReports has moved onto greener pastures and the > > company that promotes it is hoping that someone believes their claims > > and becomes so stuck in a mess that they hire them for consulting. > > > DANGER...don't go there. > > David > > > On Apr 27, 1:57 am, Tushar Gandhi <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net> > > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > I am trying to create a pdf using ruby jasper. > > > For this I am referring this url:- > > > >http://oldwiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/howtointegratejasperreports > > > > I have done everything whatever is in that link. > > > Still I am not able to get the pdf. I am not getting any error in log > > > file. My log file is:- > > > "Processing AccountController#customer_report (for 127.0.0.1 at > > > 2009-04-27 13:19:34) [GET] > > > [4;36;1mSQL (0.0ms) [0m [0;1mSET NAMES 'utf8' [0m > > > [4;35;1mSQL (0.0ms) [0m [0mSET SQL_AUTO_IS_NULL=0 [0m > > > [4;36;1mCustomer Load (0.0ms) [0m [0;1mSELECT * FROM `customers` > > > [0m > > > Rendering account/customer_list > > > [4;35;1mCustomer Columns (0.0ms) [0m [0mSHOW FIELDS FROM > > > `customers` [0m > > > Rendering account/customer_list > > > Sending data CustomerReport.pdf > > > Completed in 422ms (View: 0, DB: 0) | 200 OK > > > [http://localhost/account/customer_report]"; > > > > But I am getting an error in "XmlJasperInterface.log" like this > > > > "java.io.EOFException > > > at java.io.ObjectInputStream$PeekInputStream.readFully(Unknown Source) > > > at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readShort(Unknown > > > Source) > > > at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readStreamHeader(Unknown Source) > > > at java.io.ObjectInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source) > > > at > > > net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRLoader.loadObject(JRLoader.java:84) > > > at > > > net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperFillManager.fillReport(JasperFillManager. > > > java:342) > > > at XmlJasperInterface.report(XmlJasperInterface.java:74) > > > at XmlJasperInterface.main(XmlJasperInterface.java:58) > > > > NESTED BY : > > > net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRException: Error loading object from file > > > : E:\Rails2.2\ruby_jasper\app\reports\custrep.jasper > > > at > > > net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRLoader.loadObject(JRLoader.java:89) > > > at > > > net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperFillManager.fillReport(JasperFillManager. > > > java:342) > > > at XmlJasperInterface.report(XmlJasperInterface.java:74) > > > at XmlJasperInterface.main(XmlJasperInterface.java:58) > > > Caused by: java.io.EOFException > > > at java.io.ObjectInputStream$PeekInputStream.readFully(Unknown Source) > > > at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readShort(Unknown > > > Source) > > > at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readStreamHeader(Unknown Source) > > > at java.io.ObjectInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source) > > > at > > > net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRLoader.loadObject(JRLoader.java:84) > > > ... 3 more > > > " > > > Is there anyone faced this issue before? > > > > Any help is appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > Tushar > > > -- > > > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
