# gottfrois/dashing-rails

The exceptionally handsome dashboard framework for Rails.

Repository: https://github.com/gottfrois/dashing-rails
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dashing-rails
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2020-01-06T16:24:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4778, "days_push": 2431, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1448, forks 144 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:45.549555+00:00)

## What it is
A Rails engine port of Shopify's Dashing dashboard framework for building real-time, widget-based dashboards in Ruby on Rails applications. It supports custom widgets with SCSS/HTML/CoffeeScript, data bindings via batman.js, and pushing data through an API with Redis.

## Use cases
- build a real-time metrics dashboard in a Rails app
- display KPI dashboards on wall-mounted TVs
- create custom dashboard widgets with SCSS and CoffeeScript
- push live data to dashboards via an API
- host team status dashboards on Heroku

## When to choose
- you have an existing Rails 4+ application and want embedded dashboards
- you want the Shopify Dashing experience integrated as a Rails engine
- you need drag-and-drop widget arrangement and real-time data updates

## When to avoid
- you are not using Ruby on Rails
- you need actively maintained software - the last release was in 2020 and it depends on legacy tools like batman.js
- you want a modern dashboard stack without Redis and a multithreaded server requirement

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-framework, data-visualization, websocket, api-framework
- domain: web-development, data-visualization, developer-tools
- platform: ruby, self-hosted
- tags: rails-engine, dashboards, widgets, shopify-dashing, redis, real-time, web-server

## Member repositories
- gottfrois/dashing-rails (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:45.549555+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:36:03.553775+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gottfrois/dashing-rails (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:45.549555+00:00, sha 2c10453868d7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.