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However, there??™s no
question that Ruby is best known for its usage on the Web. In the next chapter, you??™ll discover
how all of the techniques you??™ve learned so far can be used with Ruby on Rails, the
popular web development framework.
CHAPTER 4 n CREATING REPORTS ON THE DESKTOP 73
Connecting Your Reports to
the World
Reporting does not take place in a vacuum. Reports are written for a specific purpose
for a given set of users. Technical choices like ???what language do I use??? and ???how do I
deliver the information??? are heavily influenced by the users and by the purpose of the
report. After all, your users must be able to access the report for it to be useful.
Perhaps the most powerful method to deliver reports to your user is via the World
Wide Web. Users can access the information from virtually any Internet-connected
device, and because of the Internet??™s ubiquity, you probably won??™t need to do any special
configuration for their computers??”just give users the web address, and they should be
all set.


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