Shopify open sourced Dashing late last year, their Dashboard software created for displaying dashboards on TVs around their office. We decided to see have a play and see what statistics we could show on our office TVs.

Install is simple via gem, although as a non Ruby person I spent more time than I should have installing Ruby 1.9 (from source in the end). Once up the server runs on a port (3030 as standard) and applications can simply send data to the dashboard in a certain format and it is displayed immediately.

Open Atrium

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