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Gruff is a RoR plugin to generate On-The-Fly graphs within the Web Application. Developed by Geoffrey Grosenbach you can find the Plugin Home Page at http://nubyonrails.com/pages/gruff

The API documentation can be found at http://gruff.rubyforge.org/

Example Graphs

Ubuntu server installation is quite straight forward and you can get one set up fairly quick following the onscreen instructions. Ubuntu server by default installs a command shell which is more secure, but for easy of use and portability we decided to install the flashy new Compiz desktop that comes with Gutsy Gibon.

Installing Ruby on Rails and Configuring Mongrel on Ubuntu
Back to our developlment machine this time we will take a look at how to install Ruby on Rail with Mongrel Cluster on the Ubuntu Box. We decided to go with Mongrel the obvious choice for Ruby appliations plugged with Apache.

I assume you do not have Ruby or Mongrel installed while going through this guide.

Some of the Ruby sources are not available by default being third party. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list so they can be fetched: