# Gruff graphs. getting it working

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gruff-graphs-getting-it-working/66818>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 29, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gruff-graphs-getting-it-working/66818 "2006-08-29T16:17:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![stewbawka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@stewbawka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stewbawka)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gruff-graphs-getting-it-working/66818/1 "2006-08-29T16:17:23Z")

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I have had a very hard time trying to get the gruff graphs gem working.  
i have the rails recipes book and wasn’t intimidated when it said it  
could get kinda hairy installing gruff and more specifically the evil  
prerequisites ImageMagick and RMagick.

i read [http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html](http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html) and tried  
installing from source code. i think that evil clown has cursed me.

was so annoyed by my experience trying to set this up that i looked at  
some alternatives… all i found was scruffy and sparklines… scruffy  
doesn’t do pie charts which is what i think would work the best for the  
reports i specifically have in mind. sparklines does little itty bitty  
icon graphs… not exactly what i’m looking for but the page shows  
examples of the tiny graphs being scaled up. anyway, also tried getting  
that working… no dice. maybe i’m just an idiot, but i didn’t have any  
problem getting other gems and plugins working.

any help would greatly be appreciated.

stuart

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**Author:** ![stewbawka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@stewbawka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stewbawka)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gruff-graphs-getting-it-working/66818/2 "2006-08-29T18:03:46Z")

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Its true getting rmagick and image magick working can be a pain in the  
ass.  
Here is an install script I made for getting at least gruff working.  
Its a modified version of Geoff Grosenbach’s install.  
Im assuming you are using a mac.

mkdir src  
cd src

#Libtools  
echo downloading Libtools  
curl -O ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.5.22.tar.gz  
tar -zxvf libtool-1.5.22.tar.gz  
cd libtool-1.5.22  
./configure  
make  
sudo make install  
cd …

#JPEG Source  
echo downloading JPEG plugin  
curl -O ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz  
tar -zxvf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz  
cd jpeg-6b  
./configure  
make  
sudo make install  
sudo make install-lib  
sudo ranlib /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a  
cd …

#Libpng  
echo downloading PNG plugin  
curl -O  
[http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libpng/libpng-1.2.8-config.tar.gz](http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libpng/libpng-1.2.8-config.tar.gz)  
tar -zxvf libpng-1.2.8-config.tar.gz  
cd libpng-1.2.8-config  
./configure --enable-shared --enable-static  
make  
sudo make install  
cd …

#Ghostscript  
echo downloading ghostscript  
curl -O  
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs850/ghostscript-8.50-gpl.tar.gz  
tar -zxvf ghostscript-8.50-gpl.tar.gz  
cd ghostscript-8.50-gpl  
./configure  
make  
sudo make install  
cd …

#Freetype  
echo downloading freetype  
curl -O  
[http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.1.10.tar.gz](http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.1.10.tar.gz)  
tar -zxvf freetype-2.1.10.tar.gz  
cd freetype-2.1.10  
./configure  
make  
sudo make install  
cd …

#Imagemagick  
echo downloading imagemagick  
curl -O  
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.2.7-8.tar.gz  
tar -zvxf ImageMagick-6.2.7-8.tar.gz  
cd ImageMagick-6.2.7  
./configure --with-modules --with-perl=/usr/bin/perl --with-jpeg  
–with-jp2 --enable-shared --disable-static --without-magick-plus-plus  
make  
sudo make install  
cd …

sudo gem install rmagick  
sudo gem install gruff

Best of luck.

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**Author:** ![stewbawka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@stewbawka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stewbawka)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gruff-graphs-getting-it-working/66818/3 "2006-08-29T20:36:16Z")

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i appreciate the reply… unfortunately i am not on a mac… i’m on  
fedora core 4. but thanks anyway, appreciate it

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**Author:** ![stewbawka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@stewbawka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stewbawka)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gruff-graphs-getting-it-working/66818/4 "2006-08-29T21:40:27Z")

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for the most part that script should work…just change curl -O to wget