Pecorb

This is a simple CLI tool to generate a user-selectable menu.
It is based on inquirer.js and peco (which itself is based on percol).

The above mentioned tools are all more feature rich than this one (and I'm sure the code is better too), but I wanted a few different features:

• A list that can be navigated using the keyboard (like enquirer)
• Fuzzy filterable (like ctrl-p in vim, etc.)
• Not take over the entire screen (like curses interfaces normally do)
• Dependency free (except for development dependencies)

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'pecorb'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it system wide for use on the command line:

$ gem install pecorb

For use on the command-line:

ls | pecorb | cat
pecorb myFile.txt

For use in a ruby program:

result = Pecorb.list %w[Apples Bananas Cake Donuts]
result = Pecorb.list %w[Apples Bananas Cake Donuts], prompt: "Favourite food: "

• up and ctrl-k will move up through the list
• down and ctrl-j will move down through the list
• ctrl-l will clear the screen and re-print the menu
• crtl-c and escape will exit (with exit code 0)
• ctrl-d (eof) and enter (\r) will select the item
• baskspace, left and right do what you would expect

Currently this seems to work well on the command line and as a ruby library.

There are some tests but not great coverage. The complex parts are mainly the paging logic (which does have tests) and the random access terminal printing that makes up the user interface (which doesn't have tests).

After checking out the repo, run bundle install to install dependencies.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle install and bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/stevenocchipinti/pecorb.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Inspiration and education came from these resources:

• inquirer.js
• inquirer.rb
• peco
• percol
• Random Access Terminal - Blog Post
• ANSI Escape Codes - Wikipedia