Will mark stale widgets in Dashing

application.scss

$background-stale-color-1: #cc9999;
$background-stale-color-2: #333333;
$text-stale-color: #fff;

@-webkit-keyframes status-stale-background {
  0%   { background-color: $background-stale-color-1; }
  50%  { background-color: $background-stale-color-2; }
  100% { background-color: $background-stale-color-1; }
}

.widget.status-stale {
  background-color: $background-stale-color-1;
  @include animation(status-stale-background, 2s, ease, infinite);

  .icon-warning-sign {
    display: inline-block;
  }
    .title, .more-info {
    color: $text-stale-color;
  }
}

stale-widgets.rb

require 'rubygems'

threshold = 7200
stale = "stale"

SCHEDULER.every '1m' do
  widgets = Sinatra::Application.settings.history
  total = 0
  
  widgets.each do |key, value|
    update_s =  value.to_s.slice(value.to_s.index("updatedAt")+11..-1).tr('}','').strip   
    
    updated = update_s.to_i
    now = Time.new().to_i
    diff = now-updated
    min = diff/60
    if diff>threshold
      puts "Stale widget (" + key.to_s + ") update time: " + min.to_s + " minutes ago."
      send_event(key.to_s, { status: stale })
      total = total + 1
    end
  end
  puts "Stale widgets: " + total.to_s
  send_event("stale_widgets", { value: total, current: total })
  
end

you sir are a genius! i have no idea what i was doing wrong, but i now have it working like a champ. going to let it run all night and see how things look in the morning. this is going to be a great tool for our IT Dept! thanks for the work you put into this.