ActiveReport is a gem designed to assist you in creating reports. Currently is supports HTML and CSV reports through an intuitive interface.
Generators are included to create all neccessary files.
To create a new report, run the following command:
ruby script/generate active_report UserReport
You also need to generate the default ActiveReportController which your report controllers will extend:
ruby script/generate active_report_controller
If this file already exists, it will ask if you wish to overwrite it.
After running the two previous commands, and starting/restarting your web server (so that it rereads routes.rb), you should be able to go to localhost/user_reports and see a basic form containing a submit button that says “Generate”. Clicking this button will return you to the “new” page since no data was submitted. Currently you cannot submit an empty report, which turns out to be a bad thing, so this is considered a bug and will be fixed in a later release.
Check out the rdoc for more information on how to use the models.
Copyright © 2009 Topher Fangio. See MIT-LICENSE for details.