Dashing quotes

README.md

Description

A Dashing widget for displaying random quotes from a YAML file.

See a live demo here.

Usage

Install the following gems: mechanize

Expects a quotes.yml YAML file in root directory of your Dashing project.

Its format should be:

---
-
  1:
    author: "Author name 1"
    quotes:
      - "Single line quote"
      - |-
          Multi-line
          Quotes
    title: "Some title"
-
  1:
    author: "Author name 2"
    quotes:
      - "Single line quote"
      - |-
          Multi-line
          Quotes
    title: "Some title 2"

quotes.html

<div class="quote-container">
  <h3 data-bind="text"></h3>
</div>

<div class="metadata-container">
  <p class="title" data-bind="title"></p>
  <p class="author" data-bind="author"></p>
</div>

quotes.rb

require 'mechanize'
require 'json'

SCHEDULER.every "1m", :first_in => 0 do
  quote_documents = YAML.load(File.open("./quotes.yml"))
  quotes = []
  quote_documents.each do |quote_document|
    entry = quote_document.values.first
    entry["quotes"].each do |quote|
      quotes << {
        author: entry["author"],
        title: entry["title"],
        text: quote
      }
    end
  end
  quote = quotes.sample
  send_event("quotes", { text: quote[:text], title: quote[:title], author: quote[:author] } )
end