Rather use C# and save yourself a lot of headaches... not that Ruby cant do it... just think about the best tool for the job.
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Jan Kechel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm writing mostly company internal software and I am happily using > rails for this. > This time I need a system that enables the users to modify printable > Documents themselves. > The old system (over 10 years now, written with Access 97 ;) ) used > Word for this and Access to call Word and then print documents. They > have something like '#firstname' tags in their documents that are > replaced with the dynamic values. > > So here the question: > 1. Is there already some system I could use/modify for this? > > if not: > > I'll write one! > > 1. Where should/could I post this project, as I'd like to see this as > free software (already asked, company is fine with this!) > 2. Has anyone else interest in using this (i'm not yet asking for > developers ;) > 3. Any suggestions? My plans are: > - writing a Java Applikation, that runs on the clients computer, and > will connect to the rails-app, OpenOffice and the printers (configs > for individual printers go here) (lets call it document generator and > printserver .. dgp?) > - I'll config templates with available models-fields in the rails app > - I'll trigger Document-generation via the rails-app to the document > generator > - i'll allow upload of oo-documents in the rails-app, allow config > which paper-type / preprint should be used > - the rails app creates on print-request some kind of print-job- > configuration (like customer-id, template-id and stuff, actually all > the data that might be used in the template) and sends it to the dgp > - the dgp gets the config and data, downloads the template, replaces > the variables and then prints to the printer according to the > requested paper-type (specific printer and/or tray) > > .. yeah, that's some kind of plan :) > > I anyway need to program this withing the next 2 month, but i'll > gladly hear some suggestions, ideas, improvements or alternatives! > > cu, > > Jan Kechel > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
