Adds "Daily wisdom about startups" images from http://startupquote.com to your dashboard.

README.md

Setup

Add the simple-rss Gem to your Gemfile:

gem 'simple-rss'

Update your bundle:

bundle

You need to update the image/image.html to support remote images. So, I have just updated it to the following, since I do not use the assets:

<img data-bind-src="image" data-bind-width="width"/>

Put the startup_quote.rb to jobs/startup_quote.rb.

Finally add the startup_quote.erb contents to your dashboard.

startup_quote.erb

<li data-row="1" data-col="1" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
  <div data-id="startup_quote"
       data-view="Image"
       data-title="Startup quote"
       style="padding:0;vertical-align:bottom;background:transparent;">
  </div>
</li>

startup_quote.rb

require 'simple-rss'
require 'open-uri'

url     = 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/StartupQuote?format=xml'
feed    = SimpleRSS.parse open(url)
entries = feed.entries

SCHEDULER.every '1m', :first_in => 0 do
  random_quote = entries.sample
  if (src = random_quote.description.match(/img.*?src="(.*?)"/i)[1] rescue false)
    send_event('startup_quote', {image: src})
  end
end

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