From: Victor Reyes Date: 2008-03-29T03:50:44+09:00 Subject: Use of gruff, RMAgick for dynamic Graphying ------=_Part_30142_3033342.1206728672280 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Team, Last year, 12/10/2007, I submitted a question (*Is there a Ruby utility for graphing?*) about doing graph in Ruby. I received many good suggestions and recommendations, such as: ImageMagic, RMagick, gruff, gnuplot, JRuby SWING, Tioga, Monkeybars, shoes, Etc. I wanted to use the tool (whichever it was) under AIX. However, I ran into heavy roadblocks, where 99.99% of the problems were compilation issues. Sooooooooooooo, I gave up as I only have a finite number of hours and little experience with graphing tools. I then decided to do the next "best" thing as permitted on my environment, which is to use MS Windows/XP. So I installed: ruby -v ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32] gem install hoe Need to update 21 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org ..................... complete Install required dependency rubyforge? [Yn] Y Install required dependency rake? [Yn] Y Successfully installed hoe-1.5.1 Successfully installed rubyforge-0.4.5 Successfully installed rake-0.8.1 Installing ri documentation for hoe-1.5.1... Installing ri documentation for rubyforge-0.4.5... Installing ri documentation for rake-0.8.1... Installing RDoc documentation for hoe-1.5.1... Installing RDoc documentation for rubyforge-0.4.5... Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.8.1... gem install gruff Successfully installed gruff, version 0.3.1 Installing ri documentation for gruff-0.3.1... Installing RDoc documentation for gruff-0.3.1... C:\$user\downloads\Ruby and Friends>gem install monkeybars Successfully installed monkeybars, version 0.6.0 Installing ri documentation for monkeybars-0.6.0... Installing RDoc documentation for monkeybars-0.6.0... I ran a sample RMagick (The Ruby way) program and a sample gruff program from their web page. But the problem with those tools is that they create an image which it then needs to be displayed. I was looking for some kind of tool to display "real time" performance data: CPU, Memory, Paging, Network Activities, Etc. in graph format. I could, however, display the file created by gruff or RMmagick if someone tells me how to. Remember, I am doing this now under Windows/XP. So, this is a cry for help! Thank you all for your valuable and greatly appreciated input. Victor ------=_Part_30142_3033342.1206728672280--