From: Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...>
Date: 2005-06-27T00:29:36+09:00
Subject: Re: What do you want to see in a Sparklines Library?

On 6/26/05, Daniel Nugent <nugend@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yup, seen the stuff on RedHanded, I was planning on writing a little
> something that'll let me do data: URIs.
> 
> As for Pure Ruby, I assume you mean no image manipulation libraries.
> Frankly, that's out of the question unless someone's already written
> an image manipulation library in Pure Ruby.  I don't have any interest
> in doing that.
> 
> Right now, I'm using RMagick, but if you know of an image manipulation
> library in Pure Ruby, please do tell.

Not an image manipulation library, but a simple-to-use pure ruby png writer:
  http://www.ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/120493
Not being an image manipulation library shouldn't be a problem unless
you want to draw text in there... I use this a lot for plotting data.

cheers,
Mark

> 
> On 6/26/05, Daniel Amelang <daniel.amelang@gmail.com> wrote:
> > See what's already been done before you get too far.
> >
> > http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/sparklinesForMinimalists.html
> > http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/bumpspark/
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> 
> 
> --
> -Dan Nugent
> 
>