Ruby on Rails: What Reporting and/or Charting Tools Are Available? [closed]

Answer 1

For reporting, you have

• Ruport
• Crystal Report
• Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
• Jasper Report

For simple pre-baked reports, Ruport should be fine. But if you need to deal with high volumes of reports and large dataset, go ahead and pick one of the next three.

Note: SQL Server Reporting Services can only work with SQL Server. The others are DB-agnostic.

Answer 2

Hi guys I have been working on a reporting tool, a ruby gem. Please have a look and suggest me if you have some features in mind. I am already using it in 2 of my projects. http://ashrafuzzaman.github.io/query_report/

Answer 3

It's not rails specific, but Google Visualization API is pretty cool.

Emprise also has some pretty nice looking graphs.

Answer 4

Well I'd say that most people write their own code to run reports from their data as it will mostly be specific to them. There are however a number of charting things that plug into a rails app quite easily.

• Open Flash Chart
• Scruffy

There is also an apress book called Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails which might be worth a look.

Good luck.

EDIT:

If you want to paginate data then will_paginate is the standard gem/plugin used by Rails developers, it's great and easy to use. For export to other formats there are several options. For PDFs there is Prawn, PDF::Writer or HTMLDOC, Prince is excellent but not free, but I think there is someone porting it to an open source library (if I remember right), and there are several libraries that can help you easily export to CSV files as well.

Answer 5

I found Gruff Graphs to be very easy to use and it produced nice-looking graphs. There is also Sparklines for tiny, tiny graphs. If it turns out you need very specific kinds of generated images, you can check out RMagick.

Answer 6

I used Open Flash Chart 2 before and it was very easy to use. You just make an array of key/value pairs and call ".to_json" on it.