I just started a new open-source project at https://github.com/ragingsquirrel3/quacky-charts. The goal is to provide a powerful, easy-to-use (and customize) tool for Rails developers to quickly add graphs to their apps. I know, there are a lot of tools out there already. However, I’ve found that most of the best tools (D3, Rickshaw.js) are JavaScript tools. I want to abstract these tools to move the configuration to Ruby. It will be perfect for Rails developers who don’t have the time or experience to configure these tools on the client-side.

Although the basic functionality is already there, it’s still VERY much a work in progress. So far, it only draws pie charts with random data. That will change very soon. Here are some things I want to achieve as soon as possible:

• the ability to configure data from the controller, and have the chart draw itself based on that data
• rspec testing
• additional graph types

Stay tuned for updates!