Divebar

A ruby framework for building "status bar" applications. Currently is way-way-way alpha stage. Designed to make gathering data from different sources at different polling intervals (and dumping it out how and where you want) slightly less arduous.

Current "Features":

• "Multithreaded" plugin polling
• Internal key:value store for plugin data storage
• Support for custom pluggable view drivers to render said data
  • Divebar::Driver::View::Erb (uses erb templates for dynamically rendering plugin data to a string)
• Support for custom pluggable output drivers to display rendered views
  • Divebar::Driver::Output::Stdout (for printing text to a pipe; should work for things like lemonbar)
  • Divebar::Driver::Output::XSetRoot (for vanilla dwm; uses a ruby C extension to call Xlib's XStoreName() to set the name of the root window)

Installation instructions

gem install divebar

Usage Example (see bin directory)

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# frozen_string_literal: true

require 'divebar'
require 'divebar/plugins/clock'
require 'divebar/plugins/loadavg'
require 'divebar/drivers/view/erb'
require 'divebar/drivers/output/xsetroot'

divebar = Divebar::Instance.new

divebar.config.update_interval  1

divebar.config.plugins.register Divebar::Plugin::Clock
divebar.config.plugins.register Divebar::Plugin::Loadavg

divebar.config.views.driver     Divebar::Driver::View::Erb
divebar.config.views.register   'base' # see views/base.erb
divebar.config.views.default    'base'

divebar.config.output_driver    Divebar::Driver::Output::XSetRoot

divebar.start