Heh, Sounds like someone needs to put a little veneer on the current google charts apis. (there are a bunch of them out there)
gruff-googlecharts gem :) On Feb 22, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Paul Leader wrote: > > Hi, > > Yes I have been looking at using google charts. However it seems > rather more work to get them looking decent. I've tried some of the > various gems/plugins for it but none of them seem to have the nice, > clean interface of Gruff, which looks good straight out of the box and > just seems to do the right thing. > > I may take a look at using Flot for interactive javascript graphs. > Seems like the same amount of work as getting google charts looking > nice, but with the added benefit of looking very nice and being > interactive. > > Paul > > > > On Feb 22, 12:03 pm, Ben Lovell <[email protected]> wrote: >> Although this doesn't answer your question directly I admit... Did >> you >> consider using google graphs:http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ >> >> I've used these in several large-scale projects. >> >> Ben >> >> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Paul Leader >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm dynamically generating graphs using gruff as a major part of my >>> application. >> >>> I've played around with caching the images to disk, which gives me a >>> significant speed boost, but I was wondering if there is a better >>> (or >>> indeed a "right") way to do this which I am missing. >> >>> I considered storing the graphs in the db as blogs, but all my db >>> instincts tell me that is a bad idea. Is this an old prejudice >>> that's >>> no longer true, or should you still avoid database blobs? >> >>> Paul >> >> > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" 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/heroku?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
