From boder at bitwiserlabs.com  Wed May 30 13:01:59 2007
From: boder at bitwiserlabs.com (Ryan Boder)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 13:01:59 -0400
Subject: [Scruffy-user] scruffy activity
Message-ID: <465DAE07.4060701@bitwiserlabs.com>

Hi,

I'm beginning a new RoR project that is heavily reliant on dynamically generating good looking
charts. There are many choices for Ruby graphs, but I think I've narrowed it down to using either
scruffy or rploticus.

I would prefer to use scruffy for various reasons, one being that the graphs I've seen from scruffy
look better than those I've seen from ploticus. It seems as though ploticus is currently much
further along, more complete, and reliable (older with a stronger user base) than scruffy. But if
scruffy is going to give me better looking graphs, I might be willing to take a chance and use it.

I just have a few questions about scruffy to help me decide.

Is scruffy actively being developed and are the developers committed to continuing it's development
in the foreseen future? I only ask because the project is new and the visible activity seems to have
decreased significantly during the past 9 months or so. It looks like there hasn't been a release in
almost a year, which seems strange for such a new project.

Given the similarities between scruffy and gruff, and that I've seen comments on your web site
mentioning the possibility of merging the two projects, which one is the right one to use? Are you
thinking that scruffy will absorb gruff, gruff will absorb scruff, or the two will remain
independent and compete with each other?

Thanks,
-- 
Ryan Boder