graphing - best approach? (Google Chart API, Flash, RMagick...?)

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Hi,

I want to include some graphs in my RoR application. Any recommendation re where I should jump. I’ve already gone through an RMagick installation for other purposes. Want it to be relatively straight forward, but also want the graphs to have a high level of finishing.

Possible options?

What approach do you recommend for a RoR developer?

Tks

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I would like to give my vote up for the Google charts API. It's pretty simple and it's really fast. I use it for this site:

http://brocoum.com/voter/

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Hi, I want to include some graphs in my RoR application. Any recommendation re where I should jump. I've already gone through an RMagick installation for other purposes. Want it to be relatively straight forward, but also want the graphs to have a high level of finishing.

Possible options? * Google Chart API - http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ * Rails Gruff - http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ (RMagick based / plugin) * Flash based approach perhaps: - Open Flash Chart – Teeth Grinder UK - http://www.fusioncharts.com/ [costs $$]

I just used the open-flash-chart for some work. It went pretty well. The library is a little confusing to use at first... seems a pretty straight port of the PHP library, not as "ruby-ish", but it did what I needed it to do and looks nice.

Didn't look at google's charting as it wasn't an option for business reasons...

I thought I'd read some where that gruff wasn't being updated. Maybe that was scruffy though. I don't really remember...

-p

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> Hi, > I want to include some graphs in my RoR application. Any recommendation re > where I should jump. I've already gone through an RMagick installation for > other purposes. Want it to be relatively straight forward, but also want > the graphs to have a high level of finishing. > > Possible options? > * Google Chart API - http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ > * Rails Gruff - http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ (RMagick based / > plugin) > * Flash based approach perhaps: > - Open Flash Chart – Teeth Grinder UK > - http://www.fusioncharts.com/ [costs $$]

I just used the open-flash-chart for some work. It went pretty well. The library is a little confusing to use at first... seems a pretty straight port of the PHP library, not as "ruby-ish", but it did what I needed it to do and looks nice.

Didn't look at google's charting as it wasn't an option for business reasons...

I thought I'd read some where that gruff wasn't being updated. Maybe that was scruffy though. I don't really remember...

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just found a rails plugin for the Goggle API. http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/gc4r

Anyone used it? Looks good.

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I personally like Gruff, then Google Chart API ... in that order. If you already have RMagick then I'd go with Gruff. My two cents.

Nicholas