rails chartkick google charts load times extremely long

Question

I am trying to use chartkick to plot some charts with the google charts API. The problem is that the line to set everything up is taking 10-20 seconds to load. Here is the relevant line

<%= javascript_include_tag "//www.google.com/jsapi", "chartkick" %>

Has anyone else had this problem? If so how do you fix it?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 20 '13 at 19:39

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I don't know why this is, but I managed to get it to go fast by adding http: in the url

<%= javascript_include_tag "http://www.google.com/jsapi", "chartkick" %>

answered Dec 20 '13 at 19:39

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This didn't really help me... the charts still take a tremendously long time to load. – heading_to_tahiti Aug 14 '15 at 17:39

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 12 '16 at 05:00

I generally get around this by grabbing a local copy of the file and only using it in development mode.

<% if Rails.env == "development" %>
  <%= #include the local file here %>
<% else %>
  <%= javascript_include_tag "http://www.google.com/jsapi", "chartkick" %>
<% end %>

Generally seems ok in production mode.

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