Benchmark Ruby Graphs

Graph Benchmark result

             user     system      total        real
gruff     0.880000   0.040000   0.920000   (0.849686)
scruffy   2.470000   1.910000   4.380000   (3.361562)

Graph Benchmark.rb

require "rubygems"
require "gruff"
require "scruffy"
require "benchmark"

include Benchmark

def gruff_example
  5.times do |number|
    gruff = Gruff::Line.new

    gruff.theme = { 
     :background_colors => %w(white white), 
     :colors => %w(black red purple orange), 
     :marker_color => '#4a465a' 
    }

    gruff.title = "Gruff Line graph"

    gruff.data("Peaches", [9, 9, 10, 8, 7, 9])

    gruff.data("Watermelon", [2, 3, 1, 5, 6, 8])

    gruff.write("my_fruity_graph#{number}.png")
  end
end

def scruffy_example
  5.times do |number|
    graph = Scruffy::Graph.new
    
    graph.title = "Sample Line Graph"

    graph.renderer = Scruffy::Renderers::Standard.new

    graph.add :line, 'Peaches',    [9, 9, 10, 8, 7, 9]
    graph.add :line, 'Watermelon', [2, 3, 1, 5, 6, 8]

    graph.render :to => "pie_test.svg"
    graph.render :width => 800, :height => 600,
      :to => "line_test#{number}.png", :as => 'png'
      
  end
  
end

Benchmark.benchmark do |x|
  x.report('gruff')    { gruff_example   }
  x.report('scruffy')  { scruffy_example }
end