Printing through Ruby

[Sabyasachi Mustafi]

Some days ago there were some threads about printing through ruby. Here is =
my bad solution. As I expect to make print outs in a easy but feature rich=
ed process as in Visual Basic 6.0 =0AVery frankly speaking that I want to l=
ove Ruby but always I compare it with the fast programming experience in Vi=
sual Basic. I hope it will not take too much time to get a Ruby IDE =0AI ma=
de a simple thing in ruby for printing to the printer.=0AMake the output in=
a file and then print it.=0A=0App=3DFile.open('C:\test.doc','w')=0App.pri=
nt "hello print"=0App.close=0Asystem('D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Off=
ice10\Winword "C:\test.doc"')=0A=0AIt works fine in Windows or Linux with t=
he "system".=0ABut I don't know if there is any other simple solution. Actu=
ally I need to make a report, so there are some formatted text, also differ=
ent sizes of paper etc. Any other solution for this?=0A=0ARegards,=0ASabyas=
achi Mustafi=0A

 

[Armin Roehrl]

Some days ago there were some threads about printing through ruby. Here is =
my bad solution. As I expect to make print outs in a easy but feature rich=
ed process as in Visual Basic 6.0 =0AVery frankly speaking that I want to l=
ove Ruby but always I compare it with the fast programming experience in Vi=
sual Basic. I hope it will not take too much time to get a Ruby IDE =0AI ma=
de a simple thing in ruby for printing to the printer.=0AMake the output in=
a file and then print it.=0A=0App=3DFile.open('C:\test.doc','w')=0App.pri=
nt "hello print"=0App.close=0Asystem('D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Off=
ice10\Winword "C:\test.doc"')=0A=0AIt

As long as you stick with Windows (sic), VRuby has an example
printer.rb that you might
want to look at.

good luck, -A

 

[Jamey Cribbs]

Some days ago there were some threads about printing through ruby. Here is =
my bad solution. As I expect to make print outs in a easy but feature rich=

Check out Rpv (www.rpvreport.com). I use it a lot in my Python and Ruby
gui apps to replace the functionality of a Crystal Reports. It cost me
a one time fee of approx $40 and I get to distribute the Rpv runtime in
my reports royalty-free.

Jamey

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