Svg-Export Engine for Ruby on Rails
Highcharts compliant svg-rasterizer. To find more about Highcharts Exporting, look here
Features:
- makes relative URLs absolute (with HTTP_REFERER)
- relative URLs that begins with /assets are locally linked (Performance boost + works in single-threaded server envs)
Installation
1. install Gem
# Gemfile
gem 'svg_export'
Run bundle
2. mount engine + configure
# config/routes.rb
Rails.application.routes.draw do
#...
mount SvgExport::Engine => '/exporting'
end
3. Download or install Apache Batik
This project needs Apache Batik installed on the system.
Quick install:
cd bin
wget http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/apache/xmlgraphics/batik/binaries/batik-bin-1.8.tar.gz
tar xf batik-bin-1.8.tar.gz
And configure the path, e.g. in config/initializers/svg_export.rb
SvgExport::Engine.batik_path = Rails.root.join('bin/batik-1.8/batik-rasterizer-1.8.jar')
4. Change Highchart configuration to use that server:
e.g.:
{
exporting: {
url: '/exporting'
}
}