Rubyvis

https://github.com/clbustos/rubyvis

DESCRIPTION:

Ruby port of Protovis[http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/], a Javascript visualization toolkit.

FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

This library implements almost completely core API of protovis, including all static marks, SVG builder class and data classes. Spec coverage is near 90%

Implemented:

Marks: All, except transient and transitions.
Layout: Arc, Cluster, Grid, Horizon, Indent, Matrix, Pack, Partition, Stack, Tree and Treemap. To implement: Bullet, Force, and Rollup.

Using protovis examples[http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ex/] as reference

Conventional: All working
Custom:
Backer's Barley
Burtin's Antibiotics: Scatterplot matrix
Cars: Parallel Coordinates
Crimea war: Grouped bar chart and line chart
Hierarchies:
Treemap
Bubble Charts
Circle Packing
Dendogram
Icicle
Indent
Node-Link Tree
Sunburst
Treemap
Networks:
Arc
Matrix

I try to maintain, when posible, complete compatibility with Javascript API, including camel case naming of functions.

User could use +pv+ freely, cause is defined as a global method which call Rubyvis.

Nokogiri is used as XML library. If not available, or $rubyvis_no_nokogiri is set to true, REXML is used. Nokogiri is 30%-35% faster that REXML on our test.

CURRENT PROGRESS

pv.js
pv-internals.js
color/Color.js
color/Colors.js
data/Arrays.js
data/Flatten.js
data/Histogram.js
data/Numbers.js
data/LinearScale.js
data/LogScale.js (incomplete)
data/Nest.js
data/QuantitativeScale.js
data/OrdinalScale.js
data/Scale.js
layout/Arc.js
layout/Cluster.js
layout/Grid.js
layout/Hierarchy.js
layout/Horizon.js
layout/Indent.js
layout/Layout.js
layout/Matrix.js
layout/Network.js
layout/Pack.js
layout/Partition.js
layout/Stack.js
layout/Tree.js
layout/Treemap.js
mark/Anchor.js
mark/Area.js
mark/Bar.js
mark/Dot.js
mark/Label.js
mark/Line.js
mark/Mark.js
mark/Panel.js
mark/Rule.js
mark/Wedge.js
scene/SvgBar.js
scene/SvgLabel.js
scene/SvgLine.js
scene/SvgPanel.js
scene/SvgRule.js
scene/SvgScene.js
scene/SvgWedge.js
text/Format.js (incomplete)
text/NumberFormat.js (incomplete)

SYNOPSIS:

The primary API, based on Gregory Brown's Ruby Best Practices, uses blocks and name of marks as methods

require 'rubyvis'

vis = Rubyvis::Panel.new do 
  width 150
  height 150
  bar do
    data [1, 1.2, 1.7, 1.5, 0.7, 0.3]
    width 20
    height {|d| d * 80}
    bottom(0)
    left {index * 25}
  end
end

vis.render
puts vis.to_svg

The library allows you to use chain methods API, like original protovis

require 'rubyvis'

vis = Rubyvis::Panel.new.width(150).height(150);

vis.add(pv.Bar).
  data([1, 1.2, 1.7, 1.5, 0.7, 0.3]).
  width(20).
  height(lambda {|d| d * 80}).
  bottom(0).
  left(lambda {self.index * 25});

vis.render
puts vis.to_svg

See examples directory for original protovis examples adaptations and others graphics

THE MOST FREQUENT QUESTION (MFQ)

¿Why use a server-side technology if I can use a client-side, which is faster and more economic for developer?

If you want to present graphs: (a) complex and/or dynamically generated, (b) only on the web and (c) on modern browsers, Protovis[http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/] is an excellent option. For simpler charts, Protovis is overkill. I recomend jqPlot[http://www.jqplot.com/]

Rubyvis is designed mainly for off-line operation, like batch creation of graphs for use on printed documents (rtf-pdf), with possibility of use easily the script for on-line use.

REQUIREMENTS:

Tested on Ruby 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 2.0.0, 2.1.1 and Jruby (mode 1.9)

INSTALL:

$ gem install rubyvis

LICENSE:

BSD 2-Clause (see LICENSE.txt)

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