# ChartDirector for Ruby 4.1 Released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chartdirector-for-ruby-4-1-released/71052>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 4, 2006, 10:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chartdirector-for-ruby-4-1-released/71052 "2006-10-04T22:51:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 10:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chartdirector-for-ruby-4-1-released/71052/1 "2006-10-04T22:51:20Z")

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Advanced Software Engineering is pleased to announce the immediate  
availability of ChartDirector for Ruby 4.1, a professional chart  
component for Ruby On Rails and standalone Ruby applications.

ChartDirector is a mature and powerful chart component available for  
many years with bindings to COM/VB/ASP, .NET, Java, Python, PHP, Perl  
and C++. Due to the popularity of Ruby in recent years, Advanced  
Software Engineering has decided to port ChartDirector to Ruby,  
providing professional charting capabilities to the Ruby world.

Key ChartDirector 4.1 features include:

- Synthesize Charts using Layers: Unique layering architecture enables  
you to synthesize the charts you want using standard chart layers.

- Comprehensive Chart Styles: Pie, donut, bar, line, spline, step line,  
trend line, curve-fitting, inter-line filling, area, band, scatter,  
bubble, floating box, box-whisker, waterfall, finance, gantt, vector,  
radar, polar, rose …

- Financial Library with Source Code: Includes sophisticated financial  
charting library with 46 technical indicators. Comes with source code.  
Also includes an Interactive Financial Chart sample program.

- Meters and Gauges: Angular meters of arbitrary angular span. Linear  
meters in horizontal and vertical orientations.

- Unparalleled Customizability: Powerful object oriented API allows you  
to customize every chart details.

- Flexible Axis System: Unlimited number of XY axes per chart.  
Automatic, semi-automatic and manual scaling. Linear, log, date/time  
and label-based axis. Configurable axis margins. Customizable axis  
labels.

- Markup Text Support: The innovative ChartDirector Markup Language  
(CDML) technology allows rich formatting of text - embed icons and  
images in text, use multiple fonts and colors in the same piece of  
text, control text layout, alignment, line-spacing, wrapping,  
truncation, …

- Advanced Color System: All objects in ChartDirector are painted using  
configurable “color brushes”, supporting ARGB colors (true color with  
alpha transparency), pattern colors (wallpaper), gradients, metallic  
colors, and threshold colors (colors that depend on data values).

- AJAX Enabled User Interactions: Full suite of mouse events for chart  
objects. Customizable hot spots on charts. Pop-up tool tips,  
drill-down, drag to zoom and drag to scroll support. AJAX enabled for  
web applications so charts can be updated without page refresh.

ChartDirector for Ruby comes with a ready-to-run Ruby On Rails sample  
application with numerous sample charts in MCV coding style. It also  
includes a complete set of sample charts as standalone Ruby scripts,  
and over 700 pages of full indexed and searchable documentation.

Free fully functional trial version available. For more information,  
please refer to [http://www.advsofteng.com](http://www.advsofteng.com)

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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 7:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chartdirector-for-ruby-4-1-released/71052/2 "2006-10-05T07:47:59Z")

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XML/SWF Charts suited my needs better personally.

–Not going to spam the mailing list but if interested, google  
“xml/swf”.