MRDialog

mrdialog is a pure ruby library for the ncurses dialog program. dialog is a command line tool that can present questions, messages, forms using dialog boxes from a shell script. However, it is painful to program dialog from shell scripts due to lack of data structure etc. You constactly have to watch if the correct number of items are specified, if the arguments are in correct order for example.

MRDialog is based on the rdialog ruby gem (rdialog.rubyforge.org/) by Aleks Clark.

The original license is MIT and my code is also free to use under the terms of the MIT license. Please look at the LICENSE.txt file for details.

I added support for all of the missing widgets, fixed bugs, implemented the examples for all the widgets. Please look at the ChangeLog.md file for details.

Please look at the examples in the “samples” directory to see how the API works.

TODO: write the API document here

Requirements

dialog must be installed. dialog home is:

http://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog.html

To build

$ rake build

Will create the gem inside the pkg directory

To install the built gem

$ sudo gem install --local pkg/mrdialog-1.0.1.gem

To install using rake

$ sudo rake install

To install the gem to a specific directory:

$ GEM_HOME=/tmp gem install --local pkg/mrdialog-1.0.1.gem

The gem will be installed in /tmp/gems directory

– Muhammad Muquit, [email protected] Apr-05-2014 - first cut