> I wrote a Ruby wrapper around it which is located at
> http://code.google.com/p/gchartrb . A lot of the inspiration for the API
> came from te Gruff library.
> The code is currently in subversion, but most of the imprtant features are already done. I am hoping to make a release by the end of the week.

> Feedback and comments are appreciated :)

> Deepak

> Beautiful! I've put it into use for my backend stats already!

> Qn: Any chance all the options become a "hash" argument at the end of the
> initialize methods so we can customize in 1 shot? I find possible booleans
> easier to understand/discover like that

> lc = GoogleChart::LineChart.new('320x200', "Title" , {
>   is_xy: true, show_legend: false, show_labels: true,
> })

> lc = GoogleChart::LineChart.new('320x200', "Title" ) do |c|
>   c.data "Trend 1", [5,4,3,1,3,5,6], '0000ff'
>   c.data "Trend 2", [1,2,3,4,5,6], '00ff00'
>   c.data "Trend 3", [6,5,4,3,2,1], 'ff0000'
> end

> > Beautiful! I've put it into use for my backend stats already!

> > Qn: Any chance all the options become a "hash" argument at the end of the
> > initialize methods so we can customize in 1 shot? I find possible booleans
> > easier to understand/discover like that

> > lc = GoogleChart::LineChart.new('320x200', "Title" , {
> >   is_xy: true, show_legend: false, show_labels: true,
> > })

> Good suggestion. Will think of a nice way to include that.

> I also wanted to add that you can directly manipulate the hash used to
> generate the URL by
> looking for the params attribute. This is useful if you want features that
> have not been implemented yet.

> Qn: Convenient to add a 'yield self if block_given?" at the bottom of each

> > initialize method, so that I can use it block style?

> > lc = GoogleChart::LineChart.new('320x200', "Title" ) do |c|
> >   c.data "Trend 1", [5,4,3,1,3,5,6], '0000ff'
> >   c.data "Trend 2", [1,2,3,4,5,6], '00ff00'
> >   c.data "Trend 3", [6,5,4,3,2,1], 'ff0000'
> > end

> Great suggestion again.. let me look at that. But you can always send
> patches :)..

> Deepak

> Thanks Deepak! Now we can have a simple (and cheap) powerful
> alternative to charting in ruby. :)

> On Dec 10, 1:24 pm, "Deepak Jois" <deepak.j...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12/10/07, choonkeat <choonk...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > Beautiful! I've put it into use for my backend stats already!

> > > Qn: Any chance all the options become a "hash" argument at the end of
> the
> > > initialize methods so we can customize in 1 shot? I find possible
> booleans
> > > easier to understand/discover like that

> > > lc = GoogleChart::LineChart.new('320x200', "Title" , {
> > >   is_xy: true, show_legend: false, show_labels: true,
> > > })

> > Good suggestion. Will think of a nice way to include that.

> > I also wanted to add that you can directly manipulate the hash used to
> > generate the URL by
> > looking for the params attribute. This is useful if you want features
> that
> > have not been implemented yet.

> > Qn: Convenient to add a 'yield self if block_given?" at the bottom of
> each

> > > initialize method, so that I can use it block style?

> > > lc = GoogleChart::LineChart.new('320x200', "Title" ) do |c|
> > >   c.data "Trend 1", [5,4,3,1,3,5,6], '0000ff'
> > >   c.data "Trend 2", [1,2,3,4,5,6], '00ff00'
> > >   c.data "Trend 3", [6,5,4,3,2,1], 'ff0000'
> > > end

> > Great suggestion again.. let me look at that. But you can always send
> > patches :)..

> > Deepak

> I wrote a Ruby wrapper around it which is located at http://code.google.com/p/gchartrb
>  . A lot of the inspiration for the API came from te Gruff library.  
> The code is currently in subversion, but most of the imprtant  
> features are already done. I am hoping to make a release by the end  
> of the week.

> Feedback and comments are appreciated :)

> Deepak

> Hi guys,

> Just saw this on Riding on Rails, he also created his own gem, though the
> link for it isn't up yet.

> http://www.railsontherun.com/2007/12/10/google-chart-gem

> > Hi guys,

> > Just saw this on Riding on Rails, he also created his own gem, though the
> > link for it isn't up yet.

> >http://www.railsontherun.com/2007/12/10/google-chart-gem

> Nothing like a bit of competition to keep you motivated :). I finally got
> off my back and finished the RDoc documentation and also published a gem.

> http://gchartrb.rubyforge.org

> Deepak

> On Dec 11, 4:45 pm, "Deepak Jois" <deepak.j...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > On 12/10/07, Ezwan Aizat Abdullah faiz <aizat.f...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > Hi guys,

> > > Just saw this on Riding on Rails, he also created his own gem, though the
> > > link for it isn't up yet.

> > >http://www.railsontherun.com/2007/12/10/google-chart-gem

> > Nothing like a bit of competition to keep you motivated :). I finally got
> > off my back and finished the RDoc documentation and also published a gem.

> >http://gchartrb.rubyforge.org

> > Deepak

> Damn quick, Deepak! I like it, something we'll definitely be
> considering using when we have new reporting/stats work that needs to
> be done.

> Some link juice + a bit of publicity for you:
> http://blog.codefront.net/2007/12/12/gchartrb-ruby-google-chart-api/

> Nice work!

> On Dec 11, 5:57 pm, JasonOng <velve...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Awesome. Great job Deepak!

> > On Dec 11, 4:45 pm, "Deepak Jois" <deepak.j...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > On 12/10/07, Ezwan Aizat Abdullah faiz <aizat.f...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > > Hi guys,

> > > > Just saw this on Riding on Rails, he also created his own gem,
> though the
> > > > link for it isn't up yet.

> > > >http://www.railsontherun.com/2007/12/10/google-chart-gem

> > > Nothing like a bit of competition to keep you motivated :). I finally
> got
> > > off my back and finished the RDoc documentation and also published a
> gem.

> > >http://gchartrb.rubyforge.org

> > > Deepak

> lc = GoogleChart::LineChart.new('320x200', "Title") do |c|
>   c.data "Trend 1", [5,4,3,1,3,5,6], '0000ff'
>   c.data "Trend 2", [1,2,3,4,5,6], '00ff00'
>   c.data "Trend 3", [6,5,4,3,2,1], 'ff0000'
> end

> Some link juice + a bit of publicity for you:
> http://blog.codefront.net/2007/12/12/gchartrb-ruby-google-chart-api/

> On 12/12/07, chuy...@gmail.com <chuy...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Some link juice + a bit of publicity for you:
> > http://blog.codefront.net/2007/12/12/gchartrb-ruby-google-chart-api/

> Looks like the link juice really did wonders. I am getting a lot of
> referral visits to the Google Code site :). Thanks!

> On Dec 14, 2007 9:58 AM, Deepak Jois <deepak.j...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > On 12/12/07, chuy...@gmail.com <chuy...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > Some link juice + a bit of publicity for you:
> > >http://blog.codefront.net/2007/12/12/gchartrb-ruby-google-chart-api/

> > Looks like the link juice really did wonders. I am getting a lot of
> > referral visits to the Google Code site :). Thanks!

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> On Dec 14, 11:14 am, "Harish Mallipeddi" <harish.mallipe...@gmail.com>
> wrote:> Yup Chu Yeow is the man to go to get some referral traffic. Every time that
> > he ever linked to my blog, I noticed a huge spike :)

> > On Dec 14, 2007 9:58 AM, Deepak Jois <deepak.j...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > On 12/12/07, chuy...@gmail.com <chuy...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > > Some link juice + a bit of publicity for you:
> > > >http://blog.codefront.net/2007/12/12/gchartrb-ruby-google-chart-api/

> > > Looks like the link juice really did wonders. I am getting a lot of
> > > referral visits to the Google Code site :). Thanks!

> > --
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> > Software Engineer
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> > Blog:http://poundbang.in
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