# Shopify/dashing

The exceptionally handsome dashboard framework in Ruby and Coffeescript.

Repository: https://github.com/Shopify/dashing
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dashing
Homepage: http://shopify.github.com/dashing/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2019-04-29T15:20:09+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5159, "days_push": 2683, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 10907, forks 1145 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:44.636614+00:00)

## What it is
Dashing is a Sinatra-based Ruby framework for building attractive real-time dashboards with widgets, designed to look great on TVs. It is no longer actively maintained by Shopify, with a community fork at dashing-io/dashing.

## Use cases
- build a status dashboard for my team's metrics
- display KPIs on an office TV
- create a real-time monitoring wallboard
- show sales or CI metrics on a big screen
- build custom widget-based dashboards in Ruby

## When to choose
- you want a simple Ruby-based dashboard framework and don't mind an unmaintained project
- you're displaying simple metrics on a TV or wallboard
- you're willing to use the maintained fork instead

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software with security updates
- you're starting a new project - use the dashing-io fork or modern alternatives like Grafana or Smashing
- you need complex charting or enterprise dashboard features

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: abandoned
- function: web-framework, data-visualization, http-server, templating
- domain: data-visualization, web-development, monitoring, developer-tools
- platform: ruby, self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: dashboards, sinatra, coffeescript, widgets, kpi-boards, tv-display, unmaintained, web-server

## Member repositories
- Shopify/dashing (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:44.636614+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 2026-08-29T17:17:24.631576+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Shopify/dashing (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:44.636614+00:00, sha a764f94521ac)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.