What is your favourite strategy for tackling reports in ruby projects?

Question

Recently, a customer required a complex report with multiple transformations on a large dataset.

I employed Ruport - which is an excellent choice for quick and dirty reporting. However, after a few trials I realized that ruport nested groupings and normalized data don't go together. The choices that now remained included:

1. Denormalize data (possibly in a view with nightly updates) + perform some formatting in Ruby

2. Use a completely different toolkit (JasperReports?)

I dread both possibilities. Does anyone have a better idea (ideally restricting the scope of work to ruby alone)?

Answer 1

Munger is aimed to be an alternative to Ruport so it maybe worth looking at.