[olug] Report Generator

[K.J. Kirwan]

Hi Eric, 

You might be interested in this article from 
the March 2004 (Issue 119) Linux Journal: 

> Manipulating OOo Documents with Ruby
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7236

It describes OOoExtract, a Ruby application which 
can find data in OOo files from the command line.  
OOoExtract is a search (read-only) application.  

But the author is working on a more general app now, 
which he says will be able to read, create, update, 
and delete.  The author writes, "To this end, a 
project named OOo4R has been created on RubyForge, 
the Ruby software CVS repository."  

I am not familiar with Ruby, but I found his project: 
http://rubyforge.org/projects/ooo4r/
Maybe I'll have to learn it?  
> An Interview with the Creator of Ruby (Nov 2001)
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2001/11/29/ruby.html

I would be interested in following along with you 
on this, because I too may have a situation which 
would benefit from the use of auto-generated 
OpenOffice.org documents.  Feel free to email me 
about this.  Please let us know what you learn.  

Thanks, 

Kim