From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-05-16T04:59:16+09:00
Subject: Re: x-y plots

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Jon Dean wrote:

> unknown wrote:
>> On Tue, 16 May 2006, Jon Dean wrote:
>>
>>> ruby/gnuplot but it doesn't seam to work with windows.  The problem
>>>
>>> Any idea how to get this working on windows?  Or should I be using a
>>> different graphing package?
>>
>> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/161872
>>
>> -a
>
> Still not working, same problem with the .open method.  I'll run through
> my steps for installing gnuplot and ruby/gnuplot:
>
> gnuplot - downloaded gp400win32.zip from gnuplot website.  Unzipped
> files and stored in C:\Gnuplot.  There were two executable files,
> pgnuplot.exe and wgnuplot.exe.  I renamed pgnuplot.exe to gnuplot.exe.
>
> ruby/gnuplot - used gem install.  Then set path variable in both user
> variables and system variables to C:\Gnuplot.  Also created RB_GNUPLOT
> in system variables and set it to C:\Gnuplot\gnuplot.exe.  Still doesn't
> work.  I then tried to hardcode the path in the gnuplot.rb.  Altered
> line 22 "path = ENV['PATH'] # || ENV['WHAT_EVER_WINDOWS_PATH_VAR_IS']"
> to "path = 'C:\Gnuplot'".  Also tried to add the gnuplot.exe.  Still
> doesn't work.
>
> What am I doing wrong?

i'm not sure and not at a windows box attm.  i'll try to look at this in a
bit.  hopefully someone else will chime in before then though...

regards.

-a
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