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v1.0.0
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-* Initial release of the new Reportable gem (this was formerly ReportsAsSparkline)
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+* Initial release of the new Reportable gem (formerly known as the ReportsAsSparkline plugin)
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Reportable
==========
-Former ReportsAsSparkline; expect new features, cleaner code etc. in the next weeks
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+Reportable allows for the easy creation of reports based on `ActiveRecord` models.
+
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+Usage is pretty easy. To declare a report on a model, simply define that the model provides a report:
+
+ class User < ActiveRecord::Base
+
+ reportable :registrations, :aggregation => :count
+
+ end
+
+The `reportable` method takes a bunch more options which are described in the [API docs](http://rdoc.info/projects/saulabs/reportable). For example you could generate a report on
+the number of updated users records per second or the number of registrations of users that have a last name that starts with `'A'` per month:
+
+ class User < ActiveRecord::Base
+
+ reportable :last_name_starting_with_a_registrations, :aggregation => :count, :grouping => :month, :conditions => ["last_name LIKE 'A%'"]
+
+ reportable :updated_per_second, :aggregation => :count, :grouping => :second, :date_column => :updated_at
+
+ end
+
+For every declared report a method is generated on the model that returns the date:
+
+ User.registrations_report
+
+ User.last_name_starting_with_a_registrations_report
+
+ User.updated_per_second_report
+
+
+Working with the data
+---------------------
+
+The data is returned as an `Array` of `Array`s of `DateTime`s and `Float`s, e.g.:
+
+ [
+ [DateTime.now, 1.0],
+ [DateTime.now - 1.day, 2.0],
+ [DateTime.now - 2.days, 3.0]
+ ]
+
+Reportable provides a helper method to generate a sparkline image from this data that you can use in your views:
+
+ <%= sparkline_tag(User.registrations_report) %>
+
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+To install Reportable, simply run
+
+ [sudo] gem install reportable
+
+and add it to your application's dependencies in your `environment.rb`:
+
+ config.gem 'reportable', :lib => 'saulabs/reportable'
+
+When you installed the gem, you have to generate the migration that creates Reportable's cache table:
+
+ ./script/generate reportable_migration create_reportable_cache
+
+and migrate:
+
+ rake db:migrate
+
+
+Plans
+-----
+
+* add support for Oracle and MSSQL
+* add support for DataMapper
+* add more options to generate graphs from the data
+* add the option to generate textual reports on the command line
+
+
+Authors
+-------
+
+© 2008-2010 Marco Otte-Witte (<http://simplabs.com>), Martin Kavalar (<http://www.sauspiel.de>)
+
+Released under the MIT license
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