Ruby Datavision Bridge 0.1

Ruby Datavision Bridge provides an utility to use Java datavision reports in Ruby on Rails Web applications.
The Ruby DataVision Bridge (RDB) makes it easy to use DataVisions GUI report designer and then execute the XML report definition from Ruby on Rails.
It lists known reports, queries for parameters, runs reports, and streams results to the user.
Main features:
- Lists known reports
- Queries for parameters
- Runs reports and streams results to user
- Will do lookups using activerecord (ie: select a “person”) and override report definition’s static lists for parameters
Installation:
- Download the tar and extract the contents into the directory of the rails app you want to “report-enable”.
- Source the contents of reports.sql into your db
- I’ve made some assumptions about your app’s login system.. In reports_controller you’ll find before_filter :login_required and the like. Remove or change that as needed.
- Add require ‘lib/report_engine.rb’ to your environment.rb (I hear there is a better way to do that.. email me if you know!)
- Toss your JDBC drivers into the report/jdbc dir
- Toss your datavision report xml defintions into the defs dir
- Make sure that report/output is a symbolic link to public/reports
- Make sure write permissions are assigned to temp and output
- Use the reports scaffold to add all the reports you want to your app.. should be reasonable straight forward from here!