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[edit] Ruby Basic Graphics

Here are a few interesting things you can do with Ruby and additional plugins:

Ruby can help you draw charts, no need for Excel now :)

check CSS Graphs:

>which is a Ruby on Rails helper for making very simple graphs using only CSS/HTML

Sparkline Graphs in Ruby: more info here: http://sparklines.rubyforge.org/

Gruff Graphs in Ruby more info here:http://rubyforge.org/projects/gruff

MRPlot

>Ruby plotting library

RMagick

>interface between Ruby and the ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick libraries.

An interesting solution on how to make Ruby round-cornered tables

Here's a very nice application implementing some of the above: http://assetsgraphed.com/


Also, for those of you interested in other fields of graphics, you will probably be happy to find out that Ruby also has opengl, glu and glut support.

Here's another interesting resource:

http://www.artima.com/rubycs/articles/pdf_writerP.html

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