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Google Charts and Ruby

I’ve started playing about with adding some Google Charts to SmarterFitter. Google Charts is a neat API for having Google draw you a pretty picture of your data.

Right now I’ve settled on this gem: http://gchartrb.rubyforge.org/ but that was simply the best of a fairly immature bunch.

Once gotcha when using Rails 1.2.6 and image_tag is that image_tag will attempt to append a ‘.png’ extension on to the end of the URL that the gem has created for you and that will really mess with your charts.

SmarterFitter Food Database-1.jpg

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2 Responses to “Google Charts and Ruby”

  1. Deepak Jois Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 2:34 am

    I am the maintainer for gchartrb. I would appreciate it if you could spare some time and elaborate on what you think needs to be done to make gchartrb more mature.

    I have my own list of things, but I would like to prioritise based on what people are looking for in the gem.

    Thanks

  2. Hank Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 12:03 pm

    Mmmmm… I like it!

    I hadn’t heard of this Google Code addition. Thanks

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