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Generating Open Flash Charts from Rails Application Data

Creating charts is a very important function if your app provides some kind of analytics related to particular data. Open Flash Chart provides a good interface for graphically representing your application's data. This article explains how to include Open Flash Charts in a Rails application.

A few Ruby on Rails plugins allow you to include Open Flash Charts in Rails applications. The one written by PullMonkey seems to be the most stable, and it is pretty straightforward to use. For Java, you use Open Flash Chart to show the data and the Java plugin to pass your data to Open Flash Chart. In this article, we will use PullMonkey.

Installing PullMonkey

Let's start by creating a blank Ruby on Rails application and installing the PullMonkey Open Flash Charts plugin.

safew@ltsp:~/ofc$ script/plugin install http://github.com/pullmonkey/open_flash_chart.git

Copy the javascripts and SWF objects from the plugin directory to the application directory. Here is the list of those files:

swfobject.js 
open-flash-chart-bar-clicking.swf
open-flash-chart.swf

safew@ltsp:~/ofc/vendor/plugins/open_flash_chart/assets$ sudo cp -r * /home/safew/ofc/public/

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