jasper-bridge¶ ↑

A bridge from RubyOnRails to Jasper.

Requires¶ ↑

Java (JDK) - www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Install¶ ↑

In Gemfile:

gem 'jasper-bridge'

Run ‘bundle install’.

Use¶ ↑

1.In controller class:

require 'jasper-bridge'
class ProductsController < ApplicationController
  include Jasper::Bridge
  ...
end

2.Put jasper file in “#{Rails.root}/reports” directory.

3.In action of the controller, call method ‘send_doc’ to response the report. Like the example:

def index
  @products = Product.all
  send_doc(@products.to_xml, '/products/product', 'Products.jasper', "Products", params[:output_type])
end

The parameters in order of ‘send_doc’ are:

content of XML
Xpath of XML node used
name of the jasper file
name used for file save (without extesion)
extension string of filetype returned ('pdf', 'csv', 'rtf', 'html'). Types differents of pdf are not tested.

Jasper Lib Versions¶ ↑

The java libs on this gem is from JasperReports 3.7.6. So reports must be compiled in the same version.

Copyright¶ ↑

Copyright © 2011 paulopessoa. See LICENSE.txt for further details.