OpenFlashChartLazy

This plugin allows to use the OpenFlashChart version 2 with Rails.
The idea is to get it as simple and extensible as possible, support future change of open_flash_chart
To support this, I did not reproduce all the OFC attributes on the plugin, just only the basic. All the main attributes are hashes, so if OFC add a new attribute you can add too! and the code still the same!

Initially will only support bar,line and pie graph, but is easy to add support for the other graphs
I built it to solve a problem, not all the problems that we can have in the world ;-)

Inline suport is limiter to only one graph due to the swf callbacks not available yet, but soon we can support more than one.

Todo

• Universal Rails-Sinatra-Merb compatible
• More doc
• Support for other graphs
• Label annotation for pies
• May be more specs? mmm
• Add series matcher block to allow any kind of matcher for series
• Avoid to specify the start_date for time series for each serie
• Add periodically_call_remote_graph (rodrigo orrego chileonrails)

Known issues

• Not support for 2 graphs inline yet.
• Inline graph not compatible with prototype.js

Dependencies

Install this gems before.

Mhash

  gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
  sudo gem install peterpunk-mhash
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Install

Rails


cd vendor/plugins
git clone git://github.com/peterpunk/open_flash_chart_lazy.git
cd ..
cd ..
rake open_flash_chart_lazy:install

Sinatra


cd vendor
git clone git://github.com/peterpunk/open_flash_chart_lazy.git
cd ..
rake open_flash_chart_lazy:install (no tested)

Uninstall


rake open_flash_chart_lazy:remove

Examples for Rails

With remote data

In the controller


def progress
  bar_graph = OpenFlashChartLazy::Line.new("The title of the graph")
  first_serie = OpenFlashChartLazy::Serie.new(
  [["2008-1",100],["2008-2",120],["2008-3",130]],
  {:title=>"Argentina",:start_date=>Time.mktime(2008,1,1),:items=>8})
  
  second_serie = OpenFlashChartLazy::Serie.new(
  [["2008-1",50],["2008-2",40],["2008-3",90]],
  {:title=>"Tupungato",:start_date=>Time.mktime(2008,1,1),:items=>8})

  bar_graph.add_serie(first_serie)
  bar_graph.add_serie(second_serie)
  
  render :text=>bar_graph.to_graph_json
end


In the view


<%= remote_graph("my_chart",{:route=>"/admin/dashboard/progress"}) %>

With inline data

In the controller


def show
  @pie_chart = OpenFlashChartLazy::Pie.new("Channels")
  channels=OpenFlashChartLazy::Serie.new([["Wealth",34],["Financial",45]])
  @pie_chart.add_serie(channels)
end

In the view


<%= inline_graph(@pie_chart) %>

Customize the Chart

All graph attributes are hash in general so you can add what you need and if the open_flash_chart add new parameters, just add them.

bar_graph.x_axis[:labels][:rotate]="vertical"
bar_graph.x_axis[:labels][:rotate]="vertical"
bar_graph.x_axis[:colour]="#808080"
bar_graph.x_axis["grid-colour"]="#A0A0A0"
bar_graph.x_axis[:stroke]=1

bar_graph.y_axis[:colour]="#808080"
bar_graph.y_axis[:stroke]=1
bar_graph.y_axis["grid-colour"]="#A0A0A0"

Background attributes

You can specify all of them, this is handle by method missing so just use like this.

bar_graph.bg_colour="#FFFFFF"

Other implementations for version 2

http://github.com/korin/open_flash_chart_2/tree/master 

The ‘Official’ implementation
Implementations for version 1

http://github.com/markcatley/open_flash_chart/tree/master
Enjoy!
Copyright © 2008 Pedro Visintin, released under the MIT license