Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails (Paperback)

Business intelligence and real–time reporting mechanisms play a major role in any of today’s forward–looking business plans. 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.

Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails is the first book to comprehensively introduce this popular framework, guiding readers through a wide–ranging array of features. Note this isn’t a staid guide to generating traditional reports, but rather 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.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 business intelligence and reporting solutions using a wide variety of applications and services.

About the Apress Practical Series

The Practical series from Apress is your best choice for getting the job done, period. From professional to expert, this series lets you apply project–motivated templates (or frameworks) step by step in a very direct, practical, and efficient manner toward current real–world projects that may be sitting on your desk. So whatever your career goal, Apress can be your trusted guide to take you where you want to go on your IT career empowerment path.

商業智能和即時報告機制在當今的前瞻性商業計劃中扮演著重要角色。隨著許多解決方案轉移到網絡上，流行的Rails框架及其底層的Ruby語言與Web服務一起，在構建未來的報告解決方案中發揮著重要作用。

《Ruby和Rails實用報告》是第一本全面介紹這一流行框架的書籍，引導讀者了解各種功能。請注意，這不是一本關於生成傳統報告的枯燥指南，而是向您展示了如何通過與Google AdWords、UPS.com、iTunes和SalesForce.com等流行的第三方應用程序和服務相結合，使用Ruby語言和Rails框架創建真正引人入勝的報告服務。

您將學到什麼：
- 為Web和桌面創建報告解決方案。
- 與強大的第三方零售解決方案（如eBay和Amazon.com）集成，以實時監控銷售活動。
- 使用Rails和PayPal構建發票報告系統。
- 通過利用SugarCRM的Web服務提供來監控銷售業績。

本書適合對Ruby和Rails開發人員，他們希望使用各種應用程序和服務創建引人入勝的商業智能和報告解決方案。

關於Apress Practical系列：
Apress Practical系列是您完成工作的最佳選擇。從專業到專家，這個系列讓您以非常直接、實用和高效的方式，逐步應用項目驅動的模板（或框架）來處理當前真實世界的項目，這些項目可能就在您的桌上。所以，無論您的職業目標是什麼，Apress都可以成為您IT職業發展道路上值得信賴的指南。