Dashing Gmail widget

README.md

Description

A Dashing widget for displaying the number of emails in a Gmail inbox.

See a live demo here.

Usage

Setup the following environment variables:

• GMAIL_USER: Gmail email address
• GMAIL_PASSWORD: Gmail app password, see here for more information on how to generate one

Dependencies

ruby-gmail

Add it to your Dashing application's Gemfile:

gem 'ruby-gmail'

and run bundle install.

email.erb

<li data-row="1" data-col="2" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
  <div data-id="email" data-view="Number" data-title="Email"></div>
</li>

email.rb

require 'gmail'

SCHEDULER.every "30m" do
  Gmail.new(ENV["GMAIL_USER"], ENV["GMAIL_PASSWORD"]) do |gmail|
    send_event("email", { current: gmail.inbox.count })
  end
end