Howto to use Gruff (charts) from within Rails?

Rails
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I’d like to be able to add a few charts into my application using the
gruff gem, but because I’m a noob, it’s taking me a long time to figure
out how to do it.

Grateful to anyone who can offer me a clue, or furnish a simple example.

Thanks.

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I would also love some info on this. I spent hours recompiling graphing
libraries and finally got gruff to work. I want to know what is the
easiest way to implement the graphs from within my views? Anyone out
there doing this easily?

vitruviano 61 wrote:

I’d like to be able to add a few charts into my application using the
gruff gem, but because I’m a noob, it’s taking me a long time to figure
out how to do it.

Grateful to anyone who can offer me a clue, or furnish a simple example.

Thanks.

3

vitruviano 61 wrote:

I’d like to be able to add a few charts into my application using the
gruff gem, but because I’m a noob, it’s taking me a long time to figure
out how to do it.

Grateful to anyone who can offer me a clue, or furnish a simple example.

Thanks.

Here’s some code to get you started :slight_smile:
In your view just make an image with an src pointing to the action.

def graph(days=6)
if params[:days]
days = params[:days].to_i
end
data = []
data2 = []
days.downto(0) do |n|
data << Stat.count([‘created_at BETWEEN ? AND ?’, (n + 1).days.ago,
n.days.ago])
data2 << Stat.count_by_sql([‘SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT remote_address) FROM
stats WHERE created_at BETWEEN ? AND ?’, (n + 1).days.ago, n.days.ago])
end

    total = Stat.count
unique = Stat.count_by_sql(['SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT remote_address) FROM

stats’])

g = Gruff::Line.new(480)
g.title = "Stats (total: #{total}, unique: #{unique})"
# g.theme_37signals

g.data("Hits", data)
g.data("Unique Hits", data2)

g.labels = {0 => "#{days} days ago", days =>

Time.now.strftime(’%d.%m.%Y’)}
send_data(g.to_blob,
:disposition => ‘inline’,
:type => ‘image/png’,
:filename => “hits.png”)
end

def browsers
safari = Stat.count([‘browser = ?’, ‘Safari’])
firefox = Stat.count([‘browser = ?’, ‘Firefox’])
ie = Stat.count([‘browser = ?’, ‘IE’])
netscape = Stat.count([‘browser = ?’, ‘Netscape’])
g = Gruff::Pie.new(480)
g.title = “Browsers”
g.data(“Safari”, [safari])
g.data(“Firefox”, [firefox])
g.data(“IE”, [ie])
g.data(“Netscape”, [netscape])
send_data(g.to_blob,
:disposition => ‘inline’,
:type => ‘image/png’,
:filename => “browsers.png”)
end

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Alex,

Thanks! So I can call it from my view for example like this:

<%= image_tag("/controller/graph", :class => “whatever”) %> ?

I’ll give that a shot.

def graph(days=6)
if params[:days]
days = params[:days].to_i
end
data = []
data2 = []
days.downto(0) do |n|
data << Stat.count([‘created_at BETWEEN ? AND ?’, (n + 1).days.ago,
n.days.ago])
data2 << Stat.count_by_sql([‘SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT remote_address) FROM
stats WHERE created_at BETWEEN ? AND ?’, (n + 1).days.ago, n.days.ago])
end

    total = Stat.count

unique = Stat.count_by_sql([‘SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT remote_address) FROM
stats’])

g = Gruff::Line.new(480)
g.title = “Stats (total: #{total}, unique: #{unique})”

g.theme_37signals

g.data(“Hits”, data)
g.data(“Unique Hits”, data2)

g.labels = {0 => “#{days} days ago”, days =>
Time.now.strftime(’%d.%m.%Y’)}
send_data(g.to_blob,
:disposition => ‘inline’,
:type => ‘image/png’,
:filename => “hits.png”)
end

5

Hrm,

The graph shows when I have

<%= image_tag("/graph/test") %>

in my test.rhml view, except the rest of my view layout doesn’t display,
just simply the graph image. And when I do view source its just a large
long serialized blog of image data.

In my controller my test method looks like this:

def test
g = Gruff::Line.new(750)
g.title = “Scores for Bart”
g.font = File.expand_path(‘artwork/fonts/Vera.ttf’, RAILS_ROOT)
g.labels = { 0 => ‘Mon’, 2 => ‘Wed’, 4 => ‘Fri’, 6 => ‘Sun’ }

# Modify this to represent your actual data models
g.data("Watermelon", [9, 10, 20, 44, 65, 89])

@graph = send_data(g.to_blob,
          :disposition => 'inline',
          :type => 'image/png',
          :filename => "bart_scores.png")

end

Am I missing something?

Alex MacCaw wrote:

Here’s some code to get you started :slight_smile:
In your view just make an image with an src pointing to the action.

def graph(days=6)
if params[:days]
days = params[:days].to_i
end
data = []
data2 = []
days.downto(0) do |n|
data << Stat.count([‘created_at BETWEEN ? AND ?’, (n + 1).days.ago,
n.days.ago])
data2 << Stat.count_by_sql([‘SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT remote_address) FROM
stats WHERE created_at BETWEEN ? AND ?’, (n + 1).days.ago, n.days.ago])
end

    total = Stat.count

unique = Stat.count_by_sql([‘SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT remote_address) FROM
stats’])

g = Gruff::Line.new(480)
g.title = “Stats (total: #{total}, unique: #{unique})”

g.theme_37signals

g.data(“Hits”, data)
g.data(“Unique Hits”, data2)

g.labels = {0 => “#{days} days ago”, days =>
Time.now.strftime(’%d.%m.%Y’)}
send_data(g.to_blob,
:disposition => ‘inline’,
:type => ‘image/png’,
:filename => “hits.png”)
end