Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails

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作者：David Berube
出版日期：January 28, 2008
出版社：Apress
页数：312
ISBN：ISBN-10: 1590599330 ISBN-13: 978-1590599334
文件格式：PDF


Product Description
Business intelligence and real–time reporting mechanisms play a majorrole in any of today’s forward–looking business plans. With many ofthese solutions being moved to the Web, the popular Rails framework andits underlying Ruby language are playing a major role alongside webservices in building the reporting solutions of tomorrow.Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails is the first bookto comprehensively introduce this popular framework, guiding readersthrough a wide–ranging array of features. Note this isn’t a staid guideto generating traditional reports, but rather it shows you how the Rubylanguage and Rails framework can create truly compelling reportingservices by plugging into popular third-party applications and servicessuch as Google AdWords, UPS.com, iTunes, and SalesForce.com.
What you’ll learn

• Create reporting solutions for both the Web and the desktop.
• Integrate with powerful third–party retail solutions such as eBay,and Amazon.com in order to monitor your sales campaigns in real–time.
• Build an invoice reporting system using Rails and PayPal.
• Monitor your sales performance by taking advantage of SugarCRM’s web service offerings.

Who is this book for?Ruby and Rails developers seeking to create compelling businessintelligence and reporting solutions using a wide variety ofapplications and services.
About the Apress Practical SeriesThe Practical series from Apress is your best choice for getting thejob done, period. From professional to expert, this series lets youapply project–motivated templates (or frameworks) step by step in avery direct, practical, and efficient manner toward current real–worldprojects that may be sitting on your desk. So whatever your careergoal, Apress can be your trusted guide to take you where you want to goon your IT career empowerment path.
About the Author
Berube is a Ruby developer, trainer, author, and speaker. He’s usedboth Ruby and Ruby on Rails for several years, starting in 2003 when hebecame a Ruby advocate after he wrote about the language for Dr Dobb’s Journal. Prior to this he worked professionally with PHP, Perl, C++, and Visual Basic.
His professional accomplishments include creating the Ruby on Railsengine for CoolRuby.com (http://coolruby.com), a site that tracks thelatest Ruby developments, and working with ThoughtBot(http://www.thoughtbot.com.) on the Rails engine that powers Sermo America’s Top Doctor contest. Additionally, he has worked on several other Ruby projects, including the engine powering CyberKnowHow’s BirdFluBreakingNews search engine, and he also created the Slueshi text adventure game system, a multiplayer text game engine written in Ruby.
David’s journalism has been in print in over 65 countries, in magazines such as Linux Magazine, Dr Dobb’s Journal, and PHP International Magazine.He’s also taught college courses and spoken publicly on topics such as“MySQL and You” and “Making Money with Open Source Software.”
He lives in New Hampshire and his hobbies include basketball, yo-yos, and sleep.