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This is a high-level question about web frameworks, that as a desktop app developer, I don’t have much knowledge of.
I am planning to build a web application which visualizes some data stored in a database. I plan on using Rails for user query. For visualization, the Raphael JS library looks good. Would it be a considerable task trying to connect Rails with this library?
Any recommendations for substitutes for these 2 are welcome.
There isn’t really much that needs to be done to connect Rails and Raphaël. Raphaël is a Javascript library, and so runs entirely on the client, and Rails is a web application framework, running on the server. All you really need to do to integrate them are include Raphaël on your page, and provide data to it in a format easy to use from Javascript; using RESTful controllers which provide data in JSON should make it easy for you to load data using XMLHttpRequest from the client, which you can then display using Raphaël.