FiveRuns Dash recipe for Ruby on Rails

Provides a Ruby API to push metrics from a Rails app to the FiveRuns Dash service, dash.fiveruns.com, currently in beta.

You’ll need a Dash account before using this library.

Installation

This library is released as a gem from the official repository at github.com/fiveruns/dash-rails

  sudo gem install fiveruns-dash-rails --source 'http://gems.github.com'

Usage

See the Ruby Language Guide dash.fiveruns.com/help/ruby.html for information on how to use this library.

Authors

The FiveRuns Development Team & Dash community

Dependencies

• The fiveruns-dash-ruby gem (see github.com/fiveruns/dash-ruby)
• The json gem (as a dependency for fiveruns-dash-ruby)

Rails versions

Dash has been tested with Rails 2.2 and 2.1. It may (or may not) work with Rails 2.0 applications.

We haven’t done a lot of testing with the gem being unpacked in Rails apps. YMMV; please let us know if you have issues.

Platforms

This library has only been tested on OSX and Linux. See the notes for fiveruns-dash-ruby for more information: github.com/fiveruns/dash-ruby

Contributing

As an open source project, we welcome community contributions!

The best way to contribute is by sending pull requests via GitHub. The official repository for this project is:

  http://github.com/fiveruns/dash-rails

Support

Please join the dash-users Google group, groups.google.com/group/dash-users

You can also contact us via Twitter, Campfire, or email; see the main help page, dash.fiveruns.com/help, for details.

License

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