# Gruff & legend problems **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 3, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gruff-legend-problems/91010 "2007-04-03T20:48:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pierre-Alexandre\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@Pierre-Alexandre\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pierre-Alexandre_M)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gruff-legend-problems/91010/1 "2007-04-03T20:48:56Z")
Hi, I have some problems with Gruff & legends. How do you handle many datas? When you have to many labels, the list doesn’t fit in the image. Looking at the source code, the draw\_legend() just calculate the width of the legend (sum of the labels size) and append the labels to the current\_x\_offset. This is really painful for long legends… Is there a way to change this behavior naturally or do I have to patch it? If someone has already geeked it, I don’t want to reinvent the wheel… 😉 ++ – ,========================. | Pierre-Alexandre M. | | email : removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid | `========================’ ---
**Author:** ![Pierre-Alexandre\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@Pierre-Alexandre\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pierre-Alexandre_M)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 12:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gruff-legend-problems/91010/2 "2007-04-04T12:21:18Z")
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:47:14PM +0200, Pierre-Alexandre M. wrote : > Is there a way to change this behavior naturally or do I have to patch > it? If someone has already geeked it, I don’t want to reinvent the > wheel… 😉 [http://mouraf.org/documents/rails/gruff-0.2.8.patch](http://mouraf.org/documents/rails/gruff-0.2.8.patch) – ,========================. | Pierre-Alexandre M. | | email : removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid | `========================’ ---
**Author:** ![Pierre-Alexandre\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@Pierre-Alexandre\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pierre-Alexandre_M)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gruff-legend-problems/91010/3 "2007-04-04T17:43:26Z")
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 02:05:03PM +0200, Jonathan W. wrote : > Have you submitted it to the author? Looks good to me. Actually, there are lots of patch in the trac which are not included in the core or revised by the author. Maybe he hasn’t much time to work on this project. Besides, look at my little post [http://mouraf.org/blog/show/14](http://mouraf.org/blog/show/14). The lines are not centered and the final legend is not really pretty. I really don’t know what to do : center each lines, justify legend, … I think the best issue would be to draw a vertical legend on several columns. Moreover, I haven’t provide tests so it’s not submittable 😉 – ,========================. | Pierre-Alexandre M. | | email : removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid | `========================’ ---
**Author:** ![Pierre-Alexandre\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@Pierre-Alexandre\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pierre-Alexandre_M)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 2:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gruff-legend-problems/91010/4 "2007-04-04T14:07:17Z")
Pierre-Alexandre M. wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:47:14PM +0200, Pierre-Alexandre M. wrote : > > > Is there a way to change this behavior naturally or do I have to patch > > it? If someone has already geeked it, I don’t want to reinvent the > > wheel… 😉 > > [http://mouraf.org/documents/rails/gruff-0.2.8.patch](http://mouraf.org/documents/rails/gruff-0.2.8.patch) Have you submitted it to the author? Looks good to me. Jonathan – Jonathan W. [http://blog.innerewut.de](http://blog.innerewut.de) ---
**Author:** ![Pierre-Alexandre\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@Pierre-Alexandre\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pierre-Alexandre_M)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gruff-legend-problems/91010/5 "2007-04-04T17:52:27Z")
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:42:29PM +0200, Pierre-Alexandre M. wrote : > Besides, look at my little post [http://mouraf.org/blog/show/14](http://mouraf.org/blog/show/14). > The lines are not centered and the final legend is not really pretty. I > really don’t know what to do : center each lines, justify legend, … I > think the best issue would be to draw a vertical legend on several > columns. Sucks with several lines: [http://mouraf.org/documents/rails/sucks.png](http://mouraf.org/documents/rails/sucks.png) But rocks with single line: [http://mouraf.org/documents/rails/rocks.png](http://mouraf.org/documents/rails/rocks.png) – ,========================. | Pierre-Alexandre M. | | email : removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid | `========================’