In order to get Dashing to run, we will need to have an environment that has a Ruby 1.9+ installed with RubyGems.
Typically, Ruby should be available on any common distribution of Linux and OS X. If you are running Windows, I would suggest using http://rubyinstaller.org in order to get the installation bundle.
Once you have such an environment available, we will install Dashing and create a new dashboard application for our use, as follows:
- Installing Dashing is very easy; simply execute the gem install dashing command to install Dashing RubyGems on your system.
- With the RubyGem successfully installed, we will create the new dashboard named bookpub_dashboard by executing the dashing new bookpub_dashboard command in the directory where you want the dashboard application to be created.
- Once the dashboard application has been generated, go to the bookpub_dashboard directory and execute the bundle command to install the required dependency gems.
- After the gems bundle has been installed, we can start the dashboard application by executing the dashing start command and then pointing our browser to http://localhost:3030 to see the following result:
