Rib
by Lin Jen-Shin (godfat)
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DESCRIPTION:
Ruby-Interactive-ruBy -- Yet another interactive Ruby shell
Rib is based on the design of ripl and the work of ripl-rc, some of the features are also inspired by pry. The aim of Rib is to be fully featured and yet very easy to opt-out or opt-in other features. It shall be simple, lightweight and modular so that everyone could customize Rib.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Tested with MRI (official CRuby), Rubinius and JRuby.
- All gem dependencies are optional, but it's highly recommended to use Rib with bond for tab completion.
INSTALLATION:
gem install rib
SYNOPSIS:
As an interactive shell
As IRB (reads ~/.rib/config.rb
writes ~/.rib/history.rb
)
rib
As Rails console
rib rails
You could also run in production and pass arguments normally as you'd do in
rails console
or ./script/console
rib rails production --sandbox --debugger
Note: You might need to add ruby-debug or ruby-debug19 to your Gemfile if you're passing --debugger and using bundler together.
For Rails Spring support, put this line
in your ~/.spring.rb
:
require 'rib/extra/spring'
As Ramaze console
rib ramaze
As Rack console
rib rack
As a console for whichever the app in the current path it should be (for now, it's either Rails, Ramaze or Rack)
rib auto
If you're trying to use rib auto
for a Rails app, you could also pass
arguments as if you were using rib rails
. rib auto
is merely passing
arguments.
rib auto production --sandbox --debugger
As a fully featured interactive Ruby shell (as ripl-rc)
rib all
As a fully featured app console (yes, some commands could be used together)
rib all auto # or `rib auto all`, the order doesn't really matter
You can customize Rib's behaviour by setting a config file located at
~/.rib/config.rb
or ~/.config/rib/config.rb
, or $RIB_HOME/config.rb
by
setting $RIB_HOME
environment variable. Since it's merely a Ruby script
which would be loaded into memory before launching Rib shell session, You can
put any customization or monkey patch there. Personally, I use all plugins
provided by Rib.
My Personal ~/.config/rib/config
As you can see, putting require 'rib/all'
into config file is exactly the
same as running rib all
without a config file. What rib all
would do is
merely require the file, and that file is also merely requiring all plugins,
but without extra plugins, which you should enable them one by one. This
is because most extra plugins are depending on other gems, or hard to work
with other plugins, or having strong personal tastes, so you won't want to
enable them all. Suppose you only want to use the core plugins and color
plugin, you'll put this into your config file:
require 'rib/core'
require 'rib/more/color'
You can also write your plugins there. Here's another example:
require 'rib/core'
require 'pp'
Rib.config[:prompt] = '$ '
module RibPP
Rib::Shell.send(:include, self)
def format_result result
result_prompt + result.pretty_inspect
end
end
So that we override the original format_result to pretty_inspect the result. You can also build your own gem and then simply require it in your config file. To see a list of overridable API, please read api.rb
Basic configuration
Rib.config | Functionality |
---|---|
ENV['RIB_HOME'] | Specify where Rib should store config and history |
Rib.config[:config] | The path where config should be located |
Rib.config[:name] | The name of this shell |
Rib.config[:result_prompt] | Default is "=>" |
Rib.config[:prompt] | Default is ">>" |
Rib.config[:binding] | Context, default: TOPLEVEL_BINDING |
Rib.config[:exit] | Commands to exit, default [nil] # control+d |
Plugin specific configuration
Rib.config | Functionality |
---|---|
Rib.config[:completion] | Completion: Bond config |
Rib.config[:history_file] | Default is "~/.rib/config/history.rb" |
Rib.config[:history_size] | Default is 500 |
Rib.config[:color] | A hash of Class => :color mapping |
Rib.config[:autoindent_spaces] | How to indent? Default is two spaces: ' ' |
List of core plugins
require 'rib/core' # You get all of the followings:
require 'rib/core/completion'
Completion from bond.
require 'rib/core/history'
Remember history in a history file.
require 'rib/core/strip_backtrace'
Strip backtrace before Rib.
require 'rib/core/readline'
Readline support.
require 'rib/core/multiline'
You can interpret multiple lines.
require 'rib/core/squeeze_history'
Remove duplicated input from history.
require 'rib/core/underscore'
Save the last result in _
and the last exception in __
.
List of more plugins
require 'rib/more' # You get all of the followings:
require 'rib/more/multiline_history_file'
Not only readline could have multiline history, but also the history file.
require 'rib/more/bottomup_backtrace'
Show backtrace bottom-up instead of the regular top-down.
require 'rib/more/color'
Class based colorizing.
require 'rib/more/multiline_history'
Make readline aware of multiline history.
require 'rib/more/anchor'
See As a debugging/interacting tool.
require 'rib/more/edit'
See In place editing.
List of extra plugins
There's no require 'rib/extra'
for extra plugins because they might not
be doing what you would expect or want, or having an external dependency,
or having conflicted semantics.
require 'rib/extra/autoindent'
This plugin is depending on:
- readline_buffer
- readline plugin
- multiline plugin
Which would autoindent your input.
require 'rib/extra/hirb'
This plugin is depending on:
Which would print the result with hirb.
require 'rib/extra/debugger'
This plugin is depending on:
Which introduces Rib.debug
, which would do similar things as
Rib.anchor
but only more powerful. However, this is not well
tested and might not work well. Please let me know if you have
any issue using it, thanks!
require 'rib/extra/paging'
This plugin is depending onless
andtput
.
Which would pass the result to less
(or $PAGER
if set) if
the result string is longer than the screen.
require 'rib/extra/spring'
in your~/.spring.rb
for Rails Spring support.
As a debugging/interacting tool
Rib could be used as a kind of debugging tool which you can set break point in the source program.
require 'rib/config' # This would load your Rib config
require 'rib/more/anchor'
# If you enabled anchor in config, then needed not
Rib.anchor binding # This would give you an interactive shell
# when your program has been executed here.
Rib.anchor 123 # You can also anchor on an object.
But this might be called in a loop, you might only want to enter the shell under certain circumstance, then you'll do:
require 'rib/debug'
Rib.enable_anchor do
# Only `Rib.anchor` called in the block would launch a shell
end
Rib.anchor binding # No effect (no-op) outside the block
Anchor could also be nested. The level would be shown on the prompt, starting from 1.
In place editing
Whenever you called:
require 'rib/more/edit'
Rib.edit
Rib would open an editor according to $EDITOR
(ENV['EDITOR']
) for you.
By default it would pick vim if no $EDITOR
was set. After save and leave
the editor, Rib would evaluate what you had input. This also works inside
an anchor. To use it, require either rib/more/edit or rib/more or rib/all.
As a shell framework
The essence is:
require 'rib'
All others are optional. The core plugins are lying in rib/core/*.rb
, and
more plugins are lying in rib/more/*.rb
. You can read rib/app/ramaze.rb
and bin/rib-ramaze
as a Rib App reference implementation, because it's very
simple, simpler than rib-rails.
Other plugins and apps
- rest-more
rib rest-core
Run as interactive rest-core client - rib-heroku
rib heroku
Run console on Heroku Cedar with your config
CONTRIBUTORS:
- Andrew Liu (@eggegg)
- ayaya (@ayamomiji)
- Lin Jen-Shin (@godfat)
- Mr. Big Cat (@miaout17)
- @bootleq
- @tka
LICENSE:
Apache License 2.0
Copyright (c) 2011-2015, Lin Jen-Shin (godfat)
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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