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Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails
of: David Berube
Apress, 2008
ISBN: 9781430205326 , 312 Pages
Format: PDF, Read online
Copy protection: DRM
Contents at a Glance
5
Contents
6
About the Author
10
About the Technical Reviewer
11
Acknowledgments
12
Introduction
13
Introducing Reporting with Ruby
14
Data Access Fundamentals
15
Choosing a Database
15
Using Active Record As a Database Access Library
17
Summary
29
Calculating Statistics with Active Record
30
Grouping and Aggregation
30
Analyzing Data with Grouping and Aggregates
33
Summary
42
Creating Graphs with Ruby
44
Choosing a Graphing Utility
44
Graphing Data
48
Summary
60
Creating Reports on the Desktop
61
Choosing a Desktop Format
61
Exporting Data to Spreadsheets
62
Creating GUIs with Ruby
70
Summary
83
Connecting Your Reports to the World
84
Choosing a Web Framework
84
Live Intranet Web Reporting with Rails
85
Graphical Reporting with Rails
100
Summary
116
Examples of Reporting with Ruby
118
Tracking Auctions with eBay
119
Using eBay APIs
119
Obtaining Competitive Intelligence via eBay Web Services
121
Summary
139
Tracking Expenditures with PayPal
140
Gathering Data from PayPal
140
Reporting PayPal Expenses
143
Summary
160
Creating Sales Performance Reports with SugarCRM
161
Installing SugarCRM
161
Sales Force Reporting
162
Summary
175
Investment Tracking with Fidelity
176
Writing a Small Server to Get Report Data
176
Tracking a Stock Portfolio
178
Summary
192
Calculating Costs by Analyzing Apache Web Logs
193
Speeding Up Insertions with ActiveRecord:: Extensions
194
Creating PDFs with PDF:: Writer
195
Cost- Per- Sale Reporting
196
Summary
216
Tracking the News with Google News
218
Using FeedTools to Parse RSS
219
Company News Coverage Reporting
220
Summary
235
Creating Reports with Ruby and Microsoft Office
236
Interacting with Microsoft Office
236
Importing Web- Form Data into an Access Database
239
Summary
263
Tracking Your Ads with Google AdWords
264
Obtaining Google AdWords Reports
265
Planning an AdWords Campaign
270
Summary
287
Index
288
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