Comments on: a ruby sparkline showing variation http://silkandspinach.net/2007/07/25/a-ruby-sparkline-showing-variation/ development, by example Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:48:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: i’ve moved my code « silk and spinach http://silkandspinach.net/2007/07/25/a-ruby-sparkline-showing-variation/#comment-15388 Thu, 21 May 2009 13:53:59 +0000 http://silkandspinach.net/2007/07/25/a-ruby-sparkline-showing-variation/#comment-15388 [...] one downside to all this is that I no longer have somewhere to host my simulation of coin tossing. Well, that’s a shame, but not the end of the world. If you want to try it you can clone the [...]

]]> By: Kevin Rutherford http://silkandspinach.net/2007/07/25/a-ruby-sparkline-showing-variation/#comment-13460 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:52:48 +0000 http://silkandspinach.net/2007/07/25/a-ruby-sparkline-showing-variation/#comment-13460 Actually I tried all of the existing gems and libraries, both for sparklines and for SVG — and in the end I just wrote a bunch of code that spits out SVG as text. Maybe I should tidy it up and put it up on RAA sometime…

]]> By: ARJ http://silkandspinach.net/2007/07/25/a-ruby-sparkline-showing-variation/#comment-13328 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:03:23 +0000 http://silkandspinach.net/2007/07/25/a-ruby-sparkline-showing-variation/#comment-13328 There is a kind of sparklines gem here:

http://nubyonrails.com/pages/sparklines

I added a histogram (bar chart) function to that library, and colored bars that were above a given threshold (like the rest of the drawing styles do). I don’t think that code went into the reworked version, although I was told it would be.

Anyway, things I like:
1) diverse set of drawing styles
2) not too rails-y, or rails oriented; nice generic Ruby (yay!) library is great
3) SVG is fine, since there’s lots of convertered (RMagick works fine for people trying to get things done, counter-propaganda aside)

Nice sparkline though :)

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