Many other techniques are available??”ranging from using commercial charting
products such as amCharts to libraries that aim to replace SQL with pure Ruby, like
Ambition or Ruport??”and you??™ll find that you now have a firm foundation for exploring
other solutions.
If you would like to comment on anything in this book, or if you would like to share
with me how you??™ve been able to use Ruby and related tools to do reporting, please visit
the book??™s web site at http://rubyreporting.com/??”I??™d love to hear from you.
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Special Characters
$! variable, 260
& character, 124, 129, 130
A
AbiWord, 234
Access
creating reports, 236
importing web-form data into database,
236??“260
creating web interface, 237??“250
importing XML data into, 251??“260
overview, 236??“237
Accident model, 21
accident_count column, 21
Active Record database access library, 5??“17,
19??“32
calculating player salaries, 6??“11
calculating player wins, 11??“17
grouping and aggregation
analyzing data with, 22??“31
overview, 19??“22
overview, 5??“6, 19
ActiveRecord::Base class, 9, 141, 163
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