Description
GoogleVisualr, is a wrapper around the Google Charts that allows anyone to create beautiful charts with just plain Ruby. You don't have to write any JavaScript at all.
It's good for any Ruby (Rails/Sinatra) setup, and you can handle the entire charting logic in Ruby.
Please refer to the GoogleVisualr API Reference site for a complete list of Google charts that you can create with GoogleVisualr.
README
GoogleVisualr
GoogleVisualr, is a wrapper around the Google Charts that allows anyone to create beautiful charts with just plain Ruby. You don't have to write any JavaScript at all.
It's good for any Ruby (Rails/Sinatra) setup, and you can handle the entire charting logic in Ruby.
Please refer to the GoogleVisualr API Reference site for a complete list of Google charts that you can create with GoogleVisualr.
tl:dr
- In your model or controller, write Ruby code to create your chart (e.g. Area Chart, Bar Chart etc).
- Configure your chart with any of the options as listed in Google's API Docs. E.g. Area Chart.
- In your view, call
chart.to_js(div_id)
and that renders JavaScript into the HTML output. - You get your awesome Google chart, and you didn't write any JavaScript!
Limitations
GoogleVisualr is not a 100% complete wrapper for Google Chart Tools.
Methods
and Events
as described in Google's API Docs - for use after a chart has been rendered,
are not implemented because they feel more natural being written as JavaScript functions, within the views or .js files.
Install
Assuming you are on Rails 3/4, include the gem in your Gemfile.
gem "google_visualr", ">= 2.5"
Basics
This is a basic implementation of GoogleVisualr::DataTable
and GoogleVisualr::AreaChart
.
For detailed documentation, please refer to the GoogleVisualr API Reference or read the source.
In your Rails layout, load Google Ajax API in the head tag, at the very top.
<script src='https://www.google.com/jsapi'></script>
In your Rails controller, initialize a GoogleVisualr::DataTable object with an empty constructor.
data_table = GoogleVisualr::DataTable.new
Populate data_table with column headers, and row values.
# Add Column Headers
data_table.new_column('string', 'Year' )
data_table.new_column('number', 'Sales')
data_table.new_column('number', 'Expenses')
# Add Rows and Values
data_table.add_rows([
['2004', 1000, 400],
['2005', 1170, 460],
['2006', 660, 1120],
['2007', 1030, 540]
])
Create a GoogleVisualr::AreaChart with data_table and configuration options.
option = { width: 400, height: 240, title: 'Company Performance' }
@chart = GoogleVisualr::Interactive::AreaChart.new(data_table, option)
In your Rails view, render the Google chart.
<div id='chart'></div>
<%= render_chart(@chart, 'chart') %>
Chart Initializer
The initializer of GoogleVisualr::<ChartName>
takes in two parameters: data_table
and options
.
data_table
data_table
is an instance of GoogleVisualr::DataTable
and contains headers and rows of data.
options
options
is a hash of configuration options for the Google chart (e.g. width, height, colors etc).
The available configuration options are exactly the same as those specified in Google's API Docs.
For example:
At the same time, you can also specify version
, language
and material
as configuration options.
version
The default version of Google Charts library loaded is 1.0
.
However, some charts (e.g. Gantt Charts) require the latest version of the Google Charts library,
so you will have to specify version
as 1.1
in the configuration options
....
@chart = GoogleVisualr::GanttChart.new(data_table, { version: '1.1' })
Read more about it on Google's API Docs.
language
The default locale of all Google Charts is en
.
You can override this default by specifying language
in the configuration options.
....
@chart = GoogleVisualr::BarChart.new(data_table, { language: 'ja' })
Read more about it on Google's API Docs.
material
Google has also enabled Material
design for some charts:
In 2014, Google announced guidelines intended to support a common look and feel across its properties and apps (such as Android apps) that run on Google platforms. We call this effort Material Design. We'll be providing "Material" versions of all our core charts; you're welcome to use them if you like how they look.
To use material design, you will have to specify material
as true
in the configuration options.
....
@chart = GoogleVisualr::BarChart.new(data_table, { material: true })
Listeners
For an example usage of listeners
, please refer to this comment.
Besides listeners
you can now also redraw charts in your JavaScript maunally by calling draw_<element id>()
function. See this commit for more details.
Support
Please submit all feedback, bugs and feature-requests to GitHub Issues Tracker.
Feel free to fork the project, make improvements or bug fixes and submit pull requests (with tests!).
Who's Using GoogleVisualr?
I would like to collect some data about who's using this Gem. Please drop me a line.
Author
GoogleVisualr is maintained by Winston Teo.
Who is Winston Teo? You should follow Winston on Twitter, or find out more on WinstonYW.
License
Copyright © 2015 Winston Teo Yong Wei. Free software, released under the MIT license.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the GoogleVisualr README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.