Overview / Usage

As a part of Google Summer of Code 2019, I am working with The Ruby Science Foundation (SciRuby) to developing an advanced plotting library for Ruby (like Matplotlib for Python). My project has 3 major goals:

1. Adding ImageMagick backend
2. Adding a plot and show function (just like plot and show functions in Matplotlib)
3. Integrating Rubyplot with iruby notebooks

The aim of creating such a library is to create a platform-independent library to be used with ruby for scientific computing and web development. In future, this library will be used for visualization in Machine Learning libraries for Ruby.

Methodology / Approach

Building such a library involves a lot of coordinate geometry and software development.

To add the Imagemagick backend, C bindings are already present in rmagick and using rmagick the backend will be implemented.

Please refer to my blog for further technical details for this project.

Technologies Used

Ruby, ImageMagick

Repository

https://github.com/alishdipani/rubyplot

Other links

• Project Proposal (https://github.com/alishdipani/rubyplot/wiki/GSoC-2019-Proposal)

• GSoC project link
• SciRuby foundation

• Rubyplot main repository (https://github.com/SciRuby/rubyplot)

• Blog 4 : Simple Plots in Rubyplot
• Blog 6 : The show and the plot functions
• Blog 2 : Rubyplot installation guide
• Blog 1 : GSoC 2019 project introduction
• Blog 5 : Multi plots in Rubyplot
• Blog 3 : The Scatter plot example