I was wrong about ruport

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Admits a wrong design choice: a reporting library built around duped plugin classes and shallow copies of class objects which shares state across formats and causes subtle bugs. Shows a Sinatra‑style helper DSL, a formats hash, and inferred names via convention over configuration. The system runs and produced CSV SVG PDF outputs but becomes fragile and confusing; development halts at 1.0 and ruport works but feels outdated and unsafe.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 11:40report code
3. 13:00reading code
4. 14:15SVG plugin
5. 14:40Lineplotter
6. 15:08Reading for explanation
7. 17:33Engine
8. 18:19Class Format
9. 19:16Alias Engine
10. 20:20Cargo Cult
11. 21:24Renderer
12. 23:05EngineRenderer
13. 24:59Interface
14. 26:38dupe
15. 27:05objectoriented design
16. 27:49the cost of being ignorant

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