Chartkick

Create beautiful Javascript charts with one line of Ruby. No more fighting with charting libraries!

See it in action

Works with Rails, Sinatra and most browsers (including IE 6)

💕 A perfect companion to groupdate and active_median

Usage

Line chart

<%= line_chart User.group_by_day(:created_at).count %>

Pie chart

<%= pie_chart Goal.group("name").count %>

Column chart

<%= column_chart Task.group_by_hour_of_day(:created_at).count %>

Bar chart

<%= bar_chart Shirt.group("size").sum(:price) %>

Area chart

<%= area_chart Visit.group_by_minute(:created_at).maximum(:load_time) %>

Multiple series (except pie chart)

<%= line_chart @goals.map{|goal|
    {:name => goal.name, :data => goal.feats.group_by_week(:created_at).count }
} %>

Say Goodbye To Timeouts

Make your pages load super fast and stop worrying about timeouts. Give each chart its own endpoint.

<%= line_chart completed_tasks_charts_path %>

And in your controller, pass the data as JSON.

class ChartsController < ApplicationController
  def completed_tasks
    render :json => Task.group_by_day(:completed_at).count
  end
end

Note: This feature requires jQuery or Zepto at the moment.

Options

Id and height

<%= line_chart data, :id => "users-chart", :height => "500px" %>

Min and max values (except pie chart)

<%= line_chart data, :min => 1000, :max => 5000 %>

Stacked columns or bars

<%= column_chart data, :stacked => true %>

You can pass options directly to the charting library with:

<%= line_chart data, :library => {:backgroundColor => "#eee"} %>

You can also pass a content_for option, which will put the javascript in a content block. This is great for including all of your javascript at the bottom of the page.

<%= line_chart data, :content_for => :charts_js %>

Then, in your layout:

<%= yield :charts_js %> <%# Rails %>
<%= yield_content :charts_js %> <%# Padrino %>

To make this the default, create an initializer with:

Chartkick.content_for = :charts_js

Data

Pass data as a Hash or Array

<%= pie_chart({"Football" => 10, "Basketball" => 5}) %>
<%= pie_chart [["Football", 10], ["Basketball", 5]] %>

For multiple series, use the format

<%= line_chart [
  {:name => "Series A", :data => series_a},
  {:name => "Series B", :data => series_b}
] %>

Times can be a time, a timestamp, or a string (strings are parsed)

<%= line_chart({20.day.ago => 5, 1368174456 => 4, "2013-05-07 00:00:00 UTC" => 7}) %>

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "chartkick"

And add the javascript files to your views. These files must be included before the helper methods, unless using the :content_for option.

For Google Charts, use:

<%= javascript_include_tag "//www.google.com/jsapi", "chartkick" %>

If you prefer Highcharts, use:

<%= javascript_include_tag "path/to/highcharts.js", "chartkick" %>

For Rails 3.1+

chartkick.js runs as a Rails engine - no need to install it.

For Rails 2.3 and 3.0

You must include chartkick.js manually. Download it here

For Rails 2.3, you must use a script tag for Google Charts due to this bug.

<script src="//www.google.com/jsapi"></script>

For Sinatra

You must include chartkick.js manually. Download it here

<script src="//www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script src="chartkick.js"></script>

For Padrino

You must include chartkick.js manually. Download it here

In addition, you must specify http or https if you use Google Charts, since Padrino tries to append .js to protocol relative urls.

<%= javascript_include_tag "https://www.google.com/jsapi", "chartkick" %>

Localization

To specify a language for Google Charts, add:

<script>
  var Chartkick = {"language": "de"};
</script>

before the javascript files.

No Ruby? No Problem

Check out chartkick.js

Credits

Chartkick uses iso8601.js to parse dates and times.

History

View the changelog

Chartkick follows Semantic Versioning

Contributing

Everyone is encouraged to help improve this project. Here are a few ways you can help:

• Report bugs
• Fix bugs and submit pull requests
• Write, clarify, or fix documentation
• Suggest or add new features