Dashing vs Smashing

The wiki on Dashing's Github page includes many examples and how-to's, e.g. How-to: Add-authentication.

Dashing has a huge library of user contributed widgets available.

You don't have to hand over your data to a third-party — you own your data, and you're in full control over the dashboarding system.

You can feed data to widgets directly from a Ruby script/app. Dashing uses job scheduling (rufus-scheduler) to update widgets, and it also provides a command to generate a template for jobs: dashing generate job sample_job. This is convenient if you have an application written in Ruby, or interacts with your data source using Ruby.

Dashing provides an HTTP API for pushing data in JSON format to the dashboard. This gives you the ability to wire up your data source in any way you like — the only thing you have to do is POST the data to your widget's endpoint.

You can deploy Dashing to Heroku easily with a few commands, as documented on How to: Deploy to Heroku of their Github's wiki.

You can re-arrange your dashboard widgets by dragging them around.

Dashing is based on Ruby / Sinatra. Its widgets are essentially a collection of Ruby erb templates for layout, SCSS for styling, and CoffeeScript for data polling/interactivity. If you have worked with Rails, Sinatra, or any other Ruby-based web framework and CoffeeScript, customizing widgets shouldn't be hard.

Smashing has a huge library of user contributed widgets available.

You don't have to hand over your data to a third-party — you own your data, and you're in full control over the dashboarding system.

The wiki on Smashing's Github page includes many examples and how-to's, e.g. How-to: Add-authentication.

Smashing is based on Ruby / Sinatra. Its widgets are essentially a collection of Ruby erb templates for layout, SCSS for styling, and CoffeeScript for data polling/interactivity. If you have worked with Rails, Sinatra, or any other Ruby-based web framework and CoffeeScript, customizing widgets shouldn't be hard.

You can re-arrange your dashboard widgets by dragging them around.

You can deploy Smashing to Heroku easily with a few commands, as documented on How to: Deploy to Heroku of their Github's wiki.

You can feed data to widgets directly from a Ruby script/app. Smashing uses job scheduling (rufus-scheduler) to update widgets, and it also provides a command to generate a template for jobs: dashing generate job sample_job. This is convenient if you have an application written in Ruby, or interacts with your data source using Ruby.

Smashing provides an HTTP API for pushing data in JSON format to the dashboard. This gives you the ability to wire up your data source in any way you like — the only thing you have to do is POST the data to your widget's endpoint.