Shellout

Shellout is a collection of tools for writing user interfaces for the terminal. It contains classes for printing tables and boxes, using unicode box drawing and block element characters.

Install

gem install shellout

Usage

require 'shellout'
include Shellout

Shadowboxes

> Shadowbox("Hello world").print

┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐ 
│               Hello world                │▒
└──────────────────────────────────────────┘▒
  ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒

Tables

> Table(headers: %w{Team Points},
           rows: [['Man City', 22],
                  ['Man Utd', 20],
                  ['Chelsea', 19],
                  ['Newcastle', 16]]).print

┌───────────┬────────┐
│   Team    │ Points │
├───────────┼────────┤
│ Man City  │     22 │
│ Man Utd   │     20 │
│ Chelsea   │     19 │
│ Newcastle │     16 │
└───────────┴────────┘

Calendars

> today = Date.today
 => #<Date: 2011-10-31 (...)>

> Calendar(today).print

     October 2011
 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
                 1  2
  3  4  5  6  7  8  9
 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
 31

> Calendar(today).print3

                                 2011
      September                October                 November
 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su    Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su    Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
           1  2  3  4                    1  2        1  2  3  4  5  6
  5  6  7  8  9 10 11     3  4  5  6  7  8  9     7  8  9 10 11 12 13
 12 13 14 15 16 17 18    10 11 12 13 14 15 16    14 15 16 17 18 19 20
 19 20 21 22 23 24 25    17 18 19 20 21 22 23    21 22 23 24 25 26 27
 26 27 28 29 30          24 25 26 27 28 29 30    28 29 30
                         31

Menus

> Menu([
  "Do this",
  "No, this",
  "Or, maybe this",
  "Forget it, this is the right choice",
  "Amazing things will happen if you choose this",
  "Ignore #5. Pick me!",
  "I'm the obvious choice",
  "There is no end to the awesomeness that will come from choosing this",
  "Don't choose this",
  "Or this",
  "Things are getting worse",
  "Might as well choose this one",
]).print

  1. Do this
  2. No, this
  3. Or, maybe this
  4. Forget it, this is the right choice
  5. Amazing things will happen if you choose this
  6. Ignore #5. Pick me!
  7. I'm the obvious choice
  8. There is no end to the awesomeness that will come from choosing this
  9. Don't choose this
 10. Or this
 11. Things are getting worse
 12. Might as well choose this one

Bugs

Report bugs to http://github.com/kjellm/shellout/issues

Author

Kjell-Magne Øierud <kjellm AT oierud DOT net>

License

(The MIT License)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.