Smashing is a powerful dashboard framework that enables you to build beautiful and interactive dashboards quickly. It is based on Ruby and the Sinatra web framework, and it supports a wide range of widgets, easy customization, and extensibility.
In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps of installing Smashing on Arch Linux.
Smashing is a Ruby on Rails app, so we need to install Ruby and Bundler package managers to download and manage the Smashing resources.
sudo pacman -S ruby
sudo gem install bundler
First, clone the Smashing repository into your preferred directory.
git clone https://github.com/Smashing/smashing.git
cd smashing
Then, install the required dependencies with bundler:
bundle install
To start Smashing, run the following command in the terminal:
smashing start
Your dashboard will be available at http://localhost:3030.
Now that you have installed Smashing and started the server, you can start customizing your dashboard. The Smashing website has a comprehensive list of widgets and sample dashboards that you can use as a starting point.
To create your own dashboard, navigate to the smashing directory, and use the generate command:
smashing generate dashboard <dashboard_name>
Replace <dashboard_name> with the name of your dashboard. This will generate a new directory with the same name, containing the basic files for your dashboard.
After customizing your dashboard, you can use the smashing start command to launch it.
In this tutorial, we have installed Smashing on Arch Linux and shown you how to start and customize your dashboard. With Smashing, you can create beautiful and interactive dashboards for your data in no time.
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