Vedeu: Ruby-based terminal GUI framework

[TheRealGL]

I've been working on a terminal/console based GUI framework for Ruby for around 4/5 months. Its still very basic, but there's a complimentary mp3 playing app which uses it to showcase capabilities. Not quite cross-platform, and still needs a bit of work. Welcoming pull requests.

Vedeu: https://github.com/gavinlaking/vedeu

(The mp3 player; Playa: https://github.com/gavinlaking/playa).

[klibertp]

From the headline alone it looks a lot like Urwid in Python-land: http://urwid.org/

Some compare&contrast would be a nice introduction for those who know one but not the other (like me).

EDIT: it looks like this one really doesn't use ncurses at all relying instead on terminal escape codes: https://github.com/gavinlaking/vedeu/blob/master/lib/vedeu/s...

Urwid can use that too, but has a few other display backends: http://urwid.org/reference/display_modules.html#module-urwid...

Urwid is also MUCH older (first Changelog item from 2004).

Of course, Urwid is still Python, so it may not be a good fit if you absolutely need a Ruby library.

[ccallebs]

Wildly, I was looking for something like this a few weeks ago when I got the itch to create a text-based game. I came across ncurses, but this looks to fit the bill a lot better than that.

I doubt I'll get around to pursuing the game in any amount of time, but I definitely support the project. It fills a niche I was looking for.

[davidroetzel]

I have been looking for something like this a while ago. I was very dissatisfied with the existing solutions. This looks a lot nicer. I hope to find some time to play with this. Thanks for sharing!

[ufmace]

How does it compare to some of the other Ruby CLI frameworks?

I've been using escort[0] for my CLI utilities, and it seems like a decent compromise between providing a useful number of features and not bloating your app into a huge framework with a complex DSL to figure out. It is a little short on interactivity once the command is running, though.

[0] https://github.com/skorks/escort

[miah_ → ufmace]

This is not a CLI Framework; it is a GUI framework. You can think of this as a ncurses interface for Ruby.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncurses

[bantunes → miah_]

It doesn't use ncurses, actually - it just prints characters out to STDOUT.

[klibertp → bantunes]

"characters" is a bit misleading name for what it is: https://github.com/gavinlaking/vedeu/blob/master/lib/vedeu/s... - but yes, that's how it works.

[bantunes → klibertp]

how are those not characters? :D

[lukeholder]

This looks fantastic, look forward to trying it out. I have built various csv conversion scripts for people to use at work, and have been using the awesome highline[0] option parser, but i would make people feel so much more comfortable with a more usable interface.

[0] https://github.com/JEG2/highline

[atmosx]

Hello,

I'm an amateur ruby developer. You should announce your project to the ruby-users mailing list: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org

best regards and thanks for the code :-)

[TheRealGL → atmosx]

Thank you, will announce there a little later today :-)

[roeme]

I'm split here, on one hand there's (n)curses already available on ruby, on the other hand, you need an additional library for it. Any other benefit one should be aware of?

[TheRealGL → roeme]

Hi,

I've tried to escape the tyranny of NCurses to be honest. NCurses is procedural in nature and I wanted to try to provide an OOP interface as my solution. I'm also experimenting with events which I think make implementing GUI apps with this framework much easier and flexible.

[chazu]

Looks very cool, and more intuitive than a lot of the popular alternatives (urwid, blessings/blessed). I'll be giving this a shot soon, thanks for sharing it!

[lucisferre]

Wow, I was searching for exactly this kind of framework to build a little Pomodoro clock to run in a Tmux window. Thanks so much for this!

[taternuts]

This is pretty cool - been kind of looking for something similar in node-land, inquirer seems a bit lacking

[thirdtruck]

Thanks! Looking forward to applying this to my personal productivity workflow.

[zura]

I'd love to see modern Turbo Vision clone :)