Comments on: Open Flash Chart Plugin for Ruby on Rails

By: Christian von Kleist

Christian von Kleist — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:38:00 +0000

Awesome! Thanks for the great code. You should start a RubyForge project for it and maintain it as a gem! 🙂

By: charlie

charlie — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:38:00 +0000

Thanks for the support, I will see what I can do.

By: sam stein

sam stein — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:38:00 +0000

hi, just started using the plugin and it's great, wondering if there is a way to change the y axis labels to strings instead of nums. maybe like: g.set_y_label_min(0) g.set_y_label_max(26) g.set_y_label_steps(26) g.set_y_labels(['a', ..., 'z']) thanks, sam

By: charlie

charlie — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:38:00 +0000

Hmm. That is a good question. I will have to test this functionality, I think that generally the y labels are set based on the data values. Although, I am worried that the flash object may not know how to handle it. The flash object is designed and maintained by the people over here (the php version) – http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/index.php. We will see though 🙂 I hope so, that would be great.

By: andrew

andrew — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:38:00 +0000

how do you set the bg_colour ? ive tried everything. g.bg_colour('#E2E6E0') g.bg_colour = '#E2E6E0' g.bg_color = '#E2E6E0' seems to always have error and not show graph?

By: charlie

charlie — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:38:00 +0000

Try g.set_bg_color(‘…’).

By: Vapor

Vapor — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:38:00 +0000

I get these errors in log... Processing BugController#js (for 127.0.0.1 at 2008-01-15 11:40:13) [GET] Session ID: 7adf1a6b4745f6a2c381fbc270da38c8 Parameters: {"format"=>"js", "action"=>"js", "id"=>"ofc", "controller"=>"post"} and... ActionController::RoutingError (no route found to match "/post/open-flash-chart.swf" with {:method=>:get}):

By: charlie

charlie — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:38:00 +0000

@Vapor – you want open-flash-chart.swf to wind up like this /open-flash-chart.swf, not /post/open-flash-chart.swf, in the open flash chart object call, take out the post parts. If that does not work, post your code here or over at http://railsforum.com and I will take a look.

By: Martin M

Martin M — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:38:00 +0000

I found a problem with the labels for the x-axis. Plus signs (+) are not shown in the labels, nor in tooltips containing #x_label# Steps to reproduce: g.set_x_labels(['Hello+World']) I don't know if this is a problem with the Rails plugin or with Open Flash Chart itself, but I thought I'd begin by posting about it here.

By: charlie

charlie — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:38:00 +0000

Thank you, I will take a look.