Cycling through dashboards about dashing

[pushmatrix]

It's a totally valid use case, and would make for a good extension. If you can figure out how to make it as a gem, that'd be ideal.

[sikosis]

I'd like to see that feature too. Would help prevent burn in too.

[vrish88]

I've hacked together a Sinatra extension that adds a _cycle route and uses http's refresh mechanism to cycle through the pages. I've gotten it to work with the a sample application but I haven't been able to get the _cycle route to register with a dashing app yet.

I've tried modifying a dashing apps config.ru:

require "sinatra/cyclist"
require 'dashing'

configure do
  set :auth_token, 'YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN'

  helpers do
 ...

But I get the error: No such file or directory - sample/dashboards/_cycle.erb which indicates to me that the _cycle action is getting matched by get '/:dashboard' in dashing.rb.

Any thoughts on how to get sinatra to match it with the correct route?

[vrish88]

Actually, I figured it out, so the gem should be good to go! https://github.com/vrish88/sinatra_cyclist

The instructions in the readme specify how to install it for a Dashing project.