Another option would be to fetch the raw JSON data using javascript from .../events.json and then do the grouping and whatever client-side and pass to the graph... Maybe too inefficient?
// Linus Den fredagen den 25:e januari 2013 kl. 10:35:40 UTC+1 skrev Linus Pettersson: > > Hi! > > I'm creating a bar graph using Morris.js. What I'm showing in the graph is > dates on the X-axis and the number of times an event has occurred on that > date on the Y-axis. > > So, I followed Ryan Bates episode on Morris.js: > http://railscasts.com/episodes/223-charts-graphs-revised (It's a PRO > episode so I will explain more). > > I created a class method in my model that fetches all records, groups by > date and count the occurrences. This method is called by a helper method > from my view. The helper method loops over the date range and checks the > number of occurrences for that date and adds it to a hash (dates that > doesn't exist in the database is set to 0). > This hash is then simply added to my view as a data attribute > (data-events="{....}") which I'm fetching using JS and adding to the graph. > > The questions I have are: > - Is this a good approach? > - Would it be better to add another action to my controller and have that > return the data needed as JSON and call just this using javascript? > > What are the benefits/drawbacks of the different approaches? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/PyxH2Aol0ocJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
