From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-11-01T00:51:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23967] Re: Creating charts from Ruby

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Tobias Reif wrote:

> > I need to create some charts from Ruby scripts and there seems to be quite
> > a few options. Anyone got a recommendation for a simple but powerful way
> > to do it?
> > 
> > I need professional looking bar, lines and area charts.
> 
> especially for treelike charts:
> 
> www.graphviz.org
> 
> Here
> 
> http://webdot.graphviz.org/webdot/demo.html
> 
> are some awesome examples in various formats, generated by
> 
> http://webdot.graphviz.org/webdot/
> 
> The SVG examples can be viewd with:
> Win:
>    http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/
> Lin etc. (any Java runninf platform):
>    http://xml.apache.org/batik/
> 
> John Ellson, the creator of WebDot, told me Ruby bindings could be 
> written by anyone with C skills. (AFAIK, tere's already a TCL and Perl 
> lib for WebDot/GraphViz)
> 
> All you C wizards out there, what do you think?
> 
:-)

A bit ironic since I'm the author of a Ruby Dot binding. Check out graphr
in Raa. And no C knowledge needed, I simply generate a text file that dot
can understand.

I'm looking for a charting solution. To me Graphviz is a Graph
Visualization solution.

Regards,

Robert