Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails (Expert's Voice in Open Source)
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (893 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590599330 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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His professional accomplishments include creating the Ruby on Rails engine for CoolRuby, a site that tracks the latest Ruby developments, and working with ThoughtBot on the Rails engine that powers Sermo America's Top Doctor contest. About the Author David Berube is a Ruby developer, trainer, author, and speaker. 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. . He's used both Ruby and Ruby on Rails for sever
Useful survey but doesn't get to the heart of the matter James Stewart Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails is primarily a book about the presentation of reports. Having gone in expecting a mixture of presentation and production techniques I was a little surprised to find that the vast majority of the reader's time is spent looking at various GUI and graphing toolkits, export to MS Office. A survey of the field in a short book In less than 300 pages, the author skims the field of reporting with Ruby on Rails. Not meant as an authoritative reference nor a tutorial on the Ruby language nor Rails framework, David points to useful utilities and gems that let the developer deliver analyzed, summarized, processed data in many formats. For a great man
He's used both Ruby and Ruby on Rails for several years, starting in 2003 when he became a Ruby advocate after he wrote about the language for Dr Dobb's Journal. . David Berube is a Ruby developer, trainer, author, and speaker. His professional accomplishments include creating the Ruby on Rails engine for CoolRuby, a site that tracks the late
Business intelligence and real-time reporting mechanisms play a major role in any of today’s forward-looking business plans. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to this popular framework. It shows you how the Ruby language and Rails framework can create truly compelling reporting services by plugging into popular third-party applications and services such as Google AdWords, UPS, iTunes, and SalesForce.. 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 building the reporting solutions of tomorrow