Sphyg

'Sphygmos' is the Greek word for 'pulse'. Sphyg provides an interface for creating throbbers to indicate that your long-running command line program still has a pulse.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'sphyg'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install sphyg

Pass the message you want to display while your command is running and a block containing your long-running command to Sphyg.pulse.

> ::Sphyg.pulse('Please wait') { sleep }
Please wait ⡀ ⠄ ⠂ ⠁ ⠂ ⠄ # animated 

You can also pass an options hash to ::Sphyg.pulse to customize the displayed throbber. A throbber consists of an array of frames, an enumerator, and a rate. The following are built-in throbbers. You may use the :kind key to choose a built-in throbber, or utilize ::Sphyg::THROBBERS to configure them.

Configure which kind of throbber you would like to use. Available kinds and their associated frames:

An array of strings from which to choose to display.

The string name of an object that is used to generate successive frames to display. Must receive an array of strings, which will be set to an instance variable, @frames. Must respond to #next. For example:

Randomizer = Struct.new(:frames) { def next; @frames.sample; end }
options = {
  frames: %w[a b c],
  enumerator: 'Randomizer',
  rate: 0.1
}
> Sphyg.pulse('Please wait', options) { sleep }
Please wait a # Will display a random value from `frames` every 0.1 seconds alongside the message

See Sphyg::Enumerators for more examples.

An Integer or Float representing the 'frame' rate of the throbber in seconds. Sphyg will cycle through the enumerator at this value.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

Run bundle exec rake to lint and run tests.

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 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/shanecav84/sphyg. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

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

Everyone interacting in the Sphyg project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.