Hi! I'm creating a bar graph using Morris.js. What I'm showing in the graph is dates on the X-axis and the number of times an event has occurred on that date on the Y-axis.
So, I followed Ryan Bates episode on Morris.js: http://railscasts.com/episodes/223-charts-graphs-revised (It's a PRO episode so I will explain more). I created a class method in my model that fetches all records, groups by date and count the occurrences. This method is called by a helper method from my view. The helper method loops over the date range and checks the number of occurrences for that date and adds it to a hash (dates that doesn't exist in the database is set to 0). This hash is then simply added to my view as a data attribute (data-events="{....}") which I'm fetching using JS and adding to the graph. The questions I have are: - Is this a good approach? - Would it be better to add another action to my controller and have that return the data needed as JSON and call just this using javascript? What are the benefits/drawbacks of the different approaches? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/EgL4iL2tPQcJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
