This repository is no longer used and is just preserved for reference purposes.

Check out http://shopify.github.com/dashing for more information.

Install stuff

export PATH=/home/buckett/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/bin:$PATH
sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev bundler nodejs
bundle install

To run:

dashing start

To define a dashing service on boot, update the variables in dashboard and then

sudo cp dashboard /etc/init.d
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/dashboard
sudo update-rc.d dashboard defaults

Enviornment variables

The following environment variables should be set for it to run smoothly

DASHING_JENKINS_USER
DASHING_JENKINS_PASS
DASHING_FORCE_SSL
DASHING_HOST
AUTH_TOKEN

Ideas

• RT Tickets - Open Today, Closed Today
• status.ox.ac.uk - Parse WebLearn Status.
• github commits today - Github API
• jira issues closed - Jira API
• jenkins build status

status.ox.ac.uk tinkering

The widget polls status.ox.ac.uk every 30 seconds for updates, but to test layout and colour you can manually send some data with:

echo '{ "auth_token": "YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN", "data": { "groups": [ {"id": "weblearn", "status_name": "Down"} ] } }' |curl -d @- http://localhost:3030/widgets/status

It would be better if the data was parsed(serverside) so we knew how long is had been at a particular status.

AFS Quota

The AFS quota widget is updated by a script run through cron that checks the quota usage and posts the data off. To mock this use something like:

curl -d "{ "auth_token": "YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN", "current": "80" }" http://localhost:3030/widgets/quota.afs