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In this chapter, you??™ll learn how to make your reports accessible from the Web. Let??™s
start with a quick look at your choices for accomplishing this.
Choosing a Web Framework
Many web frameworks and languages are available. Of course, since you bought this
book, it??™s likely you??™re interested in Ruby web frameworks, and probably Ruby on Rails
(typically referred to as simply Rails) in particular. In fact, Ruby itself has grown dramatically
due to Rails??™ meteoric rise to prominence. (Incidentally, Active Record, which you??™ve
used in previous chapters, is part of Rails.)
However, you can use other Ruby web frameworks. Nitro (http://www.nitroproject.
org/), for example, is a powerful alternative. Another is Merb (http://merb.rubyforge.org/),
which is a framework similar to Rails, but with a much smaller footprint. Merb also lets
you use alternate ORM frameworks, like Data Mapper, so it??™s more flexible.
Due to Rails??™ popularity and widespread community support, it??™s the framework
you??™ll use for the web examples in this book.


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