Dashing is an open-source Sinatra-based framework designed for building customizable dashboards, primarily for system administrators. It features a drag-and-drop interface, a collection of over 200 premade widgets, and allows for data integration through a Ruby DSL or API. Although Dashing is no longer maintained, users can transition to Smashing, a supported fork of the original framework.

1. Dashing
THE EXCEPTIONALLY HANDSOME DASHBOARD FRAMEWORK.
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2. Key Features
1. Dashing is a Sinatra based framework that lets you build beautiful
dashboards.
2. Use premade widgets, best for Sysadmins.
3. Widgets harness the power of data bindings to keep things dry and simple.
4. Use the API to push data to your dashboards, or make use of a simple ruby
DSL for fetching data.
5. Drag & drop interface for re-arranging your widgets.
6. It’s optimized and created for displaying custom dashboards on TV.
7. It’s Opensource.
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3. Use cases.
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4. Important Directories
Dashboards — one .erb ( Embedded Ruby with HTML ) file for each
dashboard that contains the layout for the widgets.
Jobs — Your ruby jobs for fetching data
Widgets — All the html/css/coffee for individual widgets
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5. Dashboard Config
Data-id : Could be anything ( type : string ), it will be used to push data from scheduler.
Data-view : Widget name/type.
Data-title : Title for your widget
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6. Jobs Config
Ruby scripts under jobs directory are deployed to push data
into widgets.
Create a sample job template by command
# dashing generate job myapi
Update scheduler by seconds or minutes
as 30s or 30m
Store final output to a variable and send it to dashboard for respective
data-id.
Data can be pushed into respective widgets calling dashing API too
externally.
curl -d '{ "auth_token": "YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN", "current":
100 }' http://localhost:3030/widgets/karma
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7. Widgets
• There are around 200 + widgets to use, it’s covers almost everything.
• Widgets can be found in the link
• Installation : Download and move it into the widgets folder.
• Every widget has a HTML file with data-bind parameter, use it to pass data to respective
html div using the jobs scheduler.
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8. Demo
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9. Official Links & Info
Webpage : http://dashing.io/
GitHub Repo : https://github.com/Shopify/dashing
Download link : https://github.com/Shopify/dashing/zipball/master
Realtime Application : Nagios Dashboard using Dashing (https://github.com/Jackuna/nagraj )
Note : Dashing still works great, but is no longer maintained.
Smashing is a fork of Dashing, which is maintained and supported.
Smashing Offcial Link : https://smashing.github.io/
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