ibis VS activerecord-summarize

I decided to use a tool by Mohamed Said called "Ibis". It's a PHP command line tool that allows you to write your content in Markdown, specify a few styles, and a cover image, and then it converts it all to a PDF for you. I downloaded it to give it a quick try and I was really impressed with it. It comes pre-packaged with some default styles and I could also use Aaron Francis' "Torchlight" syntax highlighting tool so I could have really nice-looking code blocks.

This is when I came across a tool called Ibis created by Mohamed Said who is a Developer at Laravel.

The project uses Ibis developed by Mohamed Said.

This is cool! Re: multiple aggregates in one query, I wrote a Ruby gem that adds an even-more-powerful and multi-database-compatible version to ActiveRecord. (I have tested Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite are tested; others probably work, too.)

https://github.com/midnightmonster/activerecord-summarize

I made activerecord-summarize because this sort of reporting is something I end up needing over and over. From a reading, writing, and maintenance perspective, I like the way you just use normal ActiveRecord methods, and the shape of the data in the block is the shape of the data in the output. You can mostly write each part of the query as if it were the only thing you were querying.

If you need to perform multiple counts and/or sums on the same table, perhaps with different groupings and filters applied, activerecord-summarize can do many aggregate operations in one pass.