Introducing HawkFX

As the Hawkular-services distribution only contains the server and not UI on purpose, I had the need to explore the content of the inventory and metrics. Of course this is easily doable via curl commands, but ever so often I mistyped or did not correctly escape the forbidden characters in a URL. At around the same time I intensivated my work on the Hawkular Ruby client, so I started creating some tool in Ruby. I was looking first at some other Ruby UI toolkit, but that did not really please me. After a bit of investigation I came around JRubyFX, which is cool, as it combines Ruby with JavaFX.

The explorer requires JRuby in version 9+ and Java8

If you are using rvm you can select JRuby9 via

rvm use jruby-9.0.5.0

There is no distribution yet. So you need to clone the git-repository and use it from source

install and use bundler to install the required gems:

then run

In an earlier stage of HawkFX I wrote a blog post on it on my personal blog.

Again: this is a pet project of mine with no support.