Category

Terminal UI

Components to build Terminal UIs

2.93
A long-lived project that still receives updates
Terminal screen size detection that works on Linux, macOS and Windows systems and supports Ruby MRI, JRuby, TruffleRuby and Rubinius interpreters.
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2.76
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The purpose of this library is to help move the terminal cursor around and manipulate text by using intuitive method calls.
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2.0
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A terminal spinner for tasks that have non-deterministic time frame.
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1.47
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A beautiful and powerful interactive command line prompt with a robust API for getting and validating complex inputs.
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0.94
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A set of methods for processing keyboard input in character, line and multiline modes. It maintains history of entered input with an ability to recall and re-edit those inputs. It lets you register to listen for keystroke events and trigger custom key events yourself.
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0.79
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A toolbox for developing beautiful command line clients.
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0.67
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Execute shell commands with pretty output logging and capture their stdout, stderr and exit status. Redirect stdin, stdout and stderr of each command to a file or a string.
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0.27
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A flexible and intuitive table generator
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0.27
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Draw various frames and boxes in the terminal window.
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0.2
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A framework for building GUI/TUI terminal/console applications.
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0.2
A long-lived project that still receives updates
Display a single or multiple progress bars in the terminal. A progress bar can show determinate or indeterminate progress that can be paused and resumed at any time. A bar format supports many tokens for common information display like elapsed time, estimated time to completion, mean rate and more.
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0.11
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A cross-platform terminal pager that works on all major Ruby interpreters.
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0.03
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Write text in large stylized characters using a variety of terminal friendly fonts.
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