Thinreports Templete CLI

This command line tool is based on Thinreports.

Installation

$ gem install thinreports-template-cli

Usage

Thinreports Templete CLI is able to receive parameters of text blocks in a TLF (thinreports layout format) file as options of the command line program.

The command supports the following formats:

• table
• csv
• json
• pdf

$ thinreports-template-cli sample.tlf --help
thinreports-template-cli tlf [options]

Basic Options
        --format=table|csv|json|pdf

Thinreports Layout File Options
        --date=[DATE]                This is a sample date.
        --subject=[SUBJECT]          This is a sample subject.
        --name=[NAME]                This is a sample name.
        --number=[NUMBER]            This is a sample number.
        --date_jp=[DATE_JP]          This is a sample date for Japanese era name.

Datetime Support

• A option value for a text block of a datetime format is parsed by DateTime#parse.
• A text block of a datetime format is rendered by the strftime format of DateTime#strftime and era_ja.
• If a text block of a datetime format does not have a command line option or a default value of a TLF file, this text block will be rendered with Datetime#now.

Examples

Output to a PDF file.

$ thinreports-template-cli sample.tlf --name="Your name" --date="2017-04-01" --format=pdf > sample.pdf

Output to a printer via the lpr command.

$ thinreports-template-cli sample.tlf --name="Your name" --date="2017-04-01" --format=pdf | lpr -P ApeosPort_V_C3375__aa_bb_cc_

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Author

Masayuki Higashino