Chartkick

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1241 stars · 151 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Chartkick is a Ruby gem (with React and JS variants) that lets you create beautiful JavaScript charts with a single line of code in Rails views or React components. It supports Chart.js, Google Charts, and Highcharts as backends and accepts data as hashes, arrays, or URLs.

Use cases

• add a line chart of users per day in a Rails view
• render a pie chart from grouped ActiveRecord counts
• create column, bar, area, and scatter charts with one line of Ruby
• build admin dashboards with quick charts
• load chart data asynchronously from a URL endpoint
• add charts to a React app with minimal code

When to choose

• you're building a Rails or Ruby web app and want charts without hand-writing JavaScript
• you want a simple, batteries-included wrapper over Chart.js, Google Charts, or Highcharts
• you need quick charts for admin panels and dashboards
• you want charts fed directly from ActiveRecord group queries

When to avoid

• you need fine-grained control over chart rendering beyond what the underlying libraries expose
• you're not using Ruby, Rails, or React
• you need server-side rendering of charts to static images
• you need highly custom or exotic chart types not supported by the backends

Facets

library · maturity stable

data-visualization charts data-visualization web-development frontend ruby chartkick chartjs google-charts highcharts rails react ruby-gem nodejs web-server

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