Moderator: Fernand Galiana, liquidrail LLC

ZiYa is a rails plugin that allows you to render charts in your web app by leveraging Flash rendering. No worries mate, you won't need to learn Flash to use this plugin. Sure there are many tools out there you can use to generate charts for your rails app but none are easier to setup and maintain than ZiYa.

ZiYa offers the following advantages:

* Offload the chart rendering activity to the client side. No need to install Rmagick and the likes on your server.

* Style your charts using the Ziya YAML style-sheets.

ZiYa leverages YAML and ERB for styling which allows you to perform dynamic styling based on certain model states.

* Uses themes to provide consistent charts look and feel.

* Embed links within your charts and use them for navigation and drill-down activities.

* Provides dramatic chart transition.

* Embed ajax periodical refresh by calling back to your controller.