Building command line tools in Ruby

Topics: Ruby

Ruby offers libraries and patterns for building command-line applications. Gems such as Cri and HighLine provide command parsing and terminal prompts.

Subtopics

• Add man pages to your Ruby CLI

Bookmarks

• Writing command-line apps in Ruby - Honeybadger Developer Blog
• GitHub - denisdefreyne/cri: A tool for building commandline applications
• GitHub - JEG2/highline: A higher level command-line oriented interface.
• GitHub - wbailey/command_line_reporter: A gem for making it easy to produce a report while a ruby script is executing
• GitHub - janlelis/paint: Ruby gem for ANSI terminal colors 🎨︎ VERY FAST
• Multiple ways to execute a shell command via Ruby 6

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