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Hey,
      The approach of adding data-attributes and letting JavaScript to fetch it and play around  is good as you have kept your view and js away
from each other. But rememeber the entire page+all the raw data of events is rendered in a single http request. This will be fine if the raw data is not heavy.
But as Linus suggested you can Ajax end point which will be called by the JavaScript So the page rendering will be fast as the first request will be the one which will render the entire HTML and layout while charts will be rendered via Ajax in the subsequent requests.

On Friday, 25 January 2013 15:05:40 UTC+5:30, Linus Pettersson wrote:

Hi!

I'm creating a bar graph using Morris.js. What I'm showing in the graph is dates on the X-axis and the number of times an event has occurred on that date on the Y-axis.

So, I followed Ryan Bates episode on Morris.js: http://railscasts.com/episodes/223-charts-graphs-revised (It's a PRO episode so I will explain more).

I created a class method in my model that fetches all records, groups by date and count the occurrences. This method is called by a helper method from my view. The helper method loops over the date range and checks the number of occurrences for that date and adds it to a hash (dates that doesn't exist in the database is set to 0).

This hash is then simply added to my view as a data attribute (data-events="{....}") which I'm fetching using JS and adding to the graph.

The questions I have are:

- Is this a good approach?

- Would it be better to add another action to my controller and have that return the data needed as JSON and call just this using javascript?

What are the benefits/drawbacks of the different approaches?

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