Sep
27
Bio::Graphics and rails
As a follow up to my post on Bio::Graphics, I tried integrating this library in a rails application. After all, you'd get your data either from a file (like GFF) or a database. And let me tell you: it took me just 30 minutes or so to get a proof-of-concept running. This included installing rails itself, creating the rails app, creating the database, loading dummy data, and doing the coding itself. That 30 minutes was interrupted for a couple of hours, because I needed some advice from Kouhei Sutou, the author of rcairo, on how to write PNG images in memory instead of to a file.
