Can google visualization calls be made without having rails set up?
gnilrets opened this issue · comments
I have some data in a Ruby program that I'd to quickly view formatted in a nice grid. You can do something like this with the Google Visualization plugin for R. Basically, I call a method on an R dataset and it pops open a browser tab with the table displayed. I'd love to be able to reproduce some of that functionality in a Ruby app.
Is there any way to use this gem to run a ruby command and have it pop open a browser tab with the data table/chart without having rails?
Yes. It is possible. The only integration with Rails is the view helper
which just calls chart.to_js. Everything else is just Ruby code.
You will have to write your own Ruby method to pop open a browser and load
the chart though as the gem does not have that functionality.
Hope this helps!
On Saturday, March 8, 2014, Sterling Paramore notifications@github.com
wrote:
I have some data in a Ruby program that I'd to quickly view formatted in a
nice grid. You can do something like this with the Google Visualization
plugin for R. Basically, I call a method on an R dataset and it pops open a
browser tab with the table displayed. I'd love to be able to reproduce some
of that functionality in a Ruby app.Is there any way to use this gem to run a ruby command and have it pop
open a browser tab with the data table/chart without having rails?—
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Cheers,
Winston
Ok, cool. Any suggestions on how to write a method to pop open a browser and load the chart?
Nevermind. Think I got something figured out using this and Launchy(https://github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy).
This is going to be awesome. Thank you!
Sorry I was away on vacation and hence couldn't reply in time.
Great that you found a solution to your needs. Let me know how it goes. Thanks! :)