LazyHighCharts

This gem provides a simple and extremely flexible way to use HighCharts from ruby code. Tested on Ruby on Rails, Sinatra and Nanoc, but it should work with others too.

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Information

RDoc documentation available on RubyDoc.info
Source code available on GitHub
More information, known limitations, and how-tos available on the wiki

Getting Help

Please report bugs on the issue tracker but read the "getting help" section in the wiki first.

Installation

Installation with rubygems

To install it, you just need to add it to your Gemfile:

gem 'lazy_high_charts'

edge version on trial

gem 'lazy_high_charts' --pre

then run

bundle install

to install it.

Usage:

Controller code:

@chart = LazyHighCharts::HighChart.new('graph') do |f|
  f.title(:text => "Population vs GDP For 5 Big Countries [2009]")
  f.xAxis(:categories => ["United States", "Japan", "China", "Germany", "France"])
  f.series(:name => "GDP in Billions", :yAxis => 0, :data => [14119, 5068, 4985, 3339, 2656])
  f.series(:name => "Population in Millions", :yAxis => 1, :data => [310, 127, 1340, 81, 65])

  f.yAxis [
    {:title => {:text => "GDP in Billions", :margin => 70} },
    {:title => {:text => "Population in Millions"}, :opposite => true},
  ]

  f.legend(:align => 'right', :verticalAlign => 'top', :y => 75, :x => -50, :layout => 'vertical',)
  f.chart({:defaultSeriesType=>"column"})
end

View Helpers:

<%= high_chart("some_id", @chart) %>

Demo projects:

Nanoc App

Rails App

Sinatra App

Update to latest js library. Aditional command line

To update to the current highcharts.js directly from http://code.highcharts.com/", you can always run

rake highcharts:update

And HC will be copied to your vendor/assets directory on your app

Deprecation notice:

If you use rails 2.3.x or 3.0.x or 3.1.x, please use versions less than 1.3.3.

Contributing

We're open to any contribution. It has to be tested properly though.

Fork the project
Do your changes and commit them to your repository
Test your changes. We won't accept any untested contributions (except if they're not testable).
Create an issue with a link to your commits.

Thanks for all contributers

Maintainers

Deshi Xiao github/xiaods
Miguel Michelson github/michelson