Dashing leaderboard widget for FITBIT®

Fitbit Leaderboard widget for Dashing, which uses the Fitgem gem to retrieve information from the Fitbit API. It displays the leaderboard of you and your friends. It calculates the top 5 (or less if you don't have more than 5 contacts in your list) of the past 7 days including today, so the ranking changes constantly.

An example of the widget can be viewed below. If you want show your own statistics, you might want to checkout the Fitbit widget.

Dependencies

Fitgem is a dependency of the Fitbit Leaderboard widget. So, add fitgem to the Gemfile of your Dashing dashboard:

gem "fitgem", github: "kevintuhumury/fitgem"

Notice the github: "kevintuhumury/fitgem" part. The fitgem gem doesn't include the required Fitbit API calls needed for this widget yet, that's why my version of the fitgem gem is required. Once the feature has been merged, we can remove the github: "kevintuhumury/fitgem" part. This README will be updated at that time aswell.

This widget has been Hamlified (we're using a HAML template in the /widgets/fitbit 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.

Authorization

If you're already using the Fitbit widget, you've already authenticated with the Fitbit API. Therefor you can skip this part of the README and continue with the 'Usage' section. If not, keep on reading.

To actually use the widget on your own Dashboard, you'll have to request an API key and shared secret from Fitbit. The steps below will take you through the entire process.

1. Create a file called .fitbit.yml in the root of your Dashboard with the content below and add the consumer_key and consumer_secret you've received from the Fitbit site.

oauth:
    consumer_key: "YOUR_KEY"
    consumer_secret: "YOUR_SECRET"

2. Copy the /lib/fitbit_authorizer.rb file into the root of your Dashboard and enable it for execution by running the following on the command line:

chmod +x fitbit_authorizer.rb

3. Now call that script by entering the following on the command line:

./fitbit_authorizer.rb

The script will ask you to copy and paste the shown URL into your browser. You'll have to login to Fitbit.com and authorize this widget to access your data. Once you've done that, you'll receive a PIN code from Fitbit which needs to be copied and pasted back on the command line.

After pasting that code and hitting <Enter> the script will add a token, secret and user_id to the .fitbit.yml file.

The above should only be done once, so basically you could now remove the fitbit_authorizer.rb file and move on to the next section (Usage). Just make sure the .fitbit.yml file looks something like the following:

oauth:
    consumer_key: "YOUR_KEY"
    consumer_secret: "YOUR_SECRET"
    token: "TOKEN"
    secret: "SECRET"
    user_id: "USER_ID"

Usage

To use this widget, copy fitbit_leaderboard.coffee, fitbit_leaderboard.haml and fitbit_leaderboard.sass into the /widgets/fitbit_leaderboard directory of your dashboard. Copy the fitbit.png image to the /assets/images/fitbit directory. Put the /jobs/fitbit_leaderboard.rb file in the /jobs folder and the /lib/fitbit.rb file into the /lib directory. If there isn't one yet, create it.

When you've already added the Fitbit widget, you already have the /lib/fitbit.rb and /assets/images/fitbit/fitbit.png file. Don't worry about that, just replace them. They should be exactly the same.

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="fitbit_leaderboard" data-view="FitbitLeaderboard"></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="fitbit_leaderboard" data-view="FitbitLeaderboard")

Now, if you haven't already, authorize the widget over at the Fitbit website as described above. Once that's done, you should be able to start using it!

Preview

Copyright

Copyright 2013 Kevin Tuhumury. Released under the MIT License. Fitbit is a registered trademark and service mark of Fitbit, Inc. The Dashing widget is designed for use with the Fitbit platform. This product is not put out by Fitbit, and Fitbit does not service or warrant the functionality of this product.