Ruby Ncurses Forms and Widgets Library

http://rbcurse.rubyforge.org/

by crazydiamond • 16 years ago

3 9 16 years ago

rbcurse.rubyforge.org

Strangely enough the title got changed.

Is there a future to a project like this today? Are people developing apps for character based terminals ? Any point in continuing to develop this ?

knuckle_cake5• 16 years ago

I think you should continue working on it. If nothing else it builds your personal code library up. I'm not sure how many apps in general use ncurses anymore, but I don't think it's going anywhere.

I'm actually developing a console-based ruby app right now. What would have been useful for me however is something to easily work with a REPL (including commands, subcommands, etc.) without a) having to drop into a full IRB session b) any assumptions that I want to parse an ARGV-like line with --long-switches and whatnot. I don't.

cmdparse is the closest, but still isn't good enough.

Thanks for doing the work on your project. Open-source authors don't get thanked often enough if their project isn't used by millions.

crazydiamond4• 16 years ago

Thanks for your reply. I would really appreciate if you could elaborate a bit more on the REPL part. Are you talking of a command line with which to query your own app within the app, as to the state of objects. Is this within the app, or like talking to it on a port and passing commands on a shell.

I had been actually thinking on the lines of how emacs can expose its commands -- although i am not an emacs user. I'd need to study that.

I am very familiar with various command line parsing libraries, including cmdparse. I did not get your requirement in this context. Thanks for answering.

knuckle_cake5• 16 years ago

I'm writing a monitor for an emulator I'm working on, so your first example is what I am doing.

I was wanting for something that lets me add commands, with aliasing, and arguments (maybe with optional regex validation) - e.g. breakpoint add $BEEF, etc. Writing a DSL is one solution and will probably end up being the way I go once I take a second iteration at this. Right now I'm just using regex parsing, but I only have a few commands I need to worry about now.

cmdparse is frustratingly close but makes a few assumptions that you want to parse ARGV or something that looks like it.

Ruby Ncurses Forms and Widgets Library

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