Happy (Belated) Birthday Ruport

I need to wish the Ruport project a belated “happy birthday”. I turns out that they turned two yesterday, Gregory Brown made the announcement on the ruby-talk list:

Just a quick bit of trivia:

Two years ago today, Ruport 0.1.0 was released on RubyForge.

He also mentioned that they’d be making the 41st public release of Ruport to celebrate. This isn’t just a ‘birthday release’ without any added value though. It’s a full on 1.2 release loaded with goodies for the discriminating Ruport user, and a few incompatibilities with the 1.0 version. Some of the major enhancements include:

• Table#sort_rows_by now allows nil objects and allows ascending / descending order
• Table constructors now accept :filters and :transforms Procs
• AAR’s report_table() now accept :filters and :transforms Procs
• Grouping constructor accepts :order, and new Grouping#sort_grouping_by method
• Formatter::PDF#draw_table now exposes column heading formatting options
• Renderers can now be passed :file => “somefile.txt” to save output

There are some flat-out new features as well:

• Data::Feeder allows for custom transformations and filters on data
• Grouping#sigma added (Thanks Dave Nelson)
• Formatter::PDF#draw_text! will draw text at an absolute position, ignoring margins
• Formatter::Template provides a simple templating system for renderer options

Congratulations to the whole Ruport team on a good looking 1.2, and on 2 great years. I wish them many happy returns.