With the Coderwall widget you can show off your achievements (badges) collected on Coderwall. It will retrieve new data every hour. It doesn't really need to be more frequent than that (it could even be a lot less than that), since Coderwall updates achievements approximately once a week.
Coderwall basically is a website that provides developers and any associated teams the opportunity to specify their skills, experiences and interest. Based on your github repositories, you can earn unique Coderwall badges for all major language types you've used, representing your skills and level-up. A few examples of these achievements (and thus the widget itself) can be seen below.
The Coderwall widget depends on the json gem. So, add json to the Gemfile of your Dashing dashboard:
gem "json"This widget has been Hamlified (we're using a HAML template in the /widgets/coderwall directory instead of an HTML template), so besides the above you'll also need to add haml to the Gemfile (if you haven't already):
gem "haml"and require it in your config.ru file right below the require of dashing itself. So the first few lines of your config.ru should look something like the following:
require 'dashing'
require 'haml'
configure do
...Now run bundle install.
To use this widget, copy coderwall.coffee, coderwall.haml and coderwall.sass into the /widgets/coderwall directory of your dashboard. Copy the coderwall.png image to the /assets/images directory and place the /jobs/coderwall.rb file in the /jobs folder.
To include the widget on your dashboard, add the following snippet to the dashboard layout file:
<li data-row="1" data-col="1" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
<div data-id="coderwall" data-view="Coderwall"></div>
</li>When you're using a Hamlified dashboard layout (hey, you're already using a Hamlified widget, so why not Hamlify your dashboard layout?), you could also do the following:
%li(data-row="1" data-col="1" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1")
%div(data-id="coderwall" data-view="Coderwall")Now, let's move on to the next section and configure your widget. Once that's done, you should be able to start using it!
To actually show of your achievements, you'll need to enter your Coderwall username in the jobs/coderwall.rb file. Simply change the username setting below to your own:
# widget configuration
username = "YOUR_USERNAME"That's it!
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