Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails

• Main Author: Berube, David (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, CA : Apress, 2008.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.

Business intelligence and real–time reporting mechanisms play a major role in any of today's forward–looking business plans. With many of these solutions being moved to the Web, the popular Rails framework and its underlying Ruby language are playing a major role alongside web services in build...

Table of Contents:

• Introducing Reporting with Ruby
• Data Access Fundamentals
• Calculating Statistics with Active Record
• Creating Graphs with Ruby
• Creating Reports on the Desktop
• Connecting Your Reports to the World
• Examples of Reporting with Ruby
• Tracking Auctions with eBay
• Tracking Expenditures with PayPal
• Creating Sales Performance Reports with SugarCRM
• Investment Tracking with Fidelity
• Calculating Costs by Analyzing Apache Web Logs
• Tracking the News with Google News
• Creating Reports with Ruby and Microsoft Office
• Tracking Your Ads with Google AdWords.