inquirer.rb

Interactive user prompts on CLI for ruby.

Examples

idx = Ask.list "Look behind you...", [
  "a three-headed monkey!",
  "a pink pony",
  "Godzilla"
]
# idx is the selected index

List example

idx = Ask.checkbox "Monkey see, monkey...", [
  "don't",
  "eats Banana",
  "do"
]
# idx is an array containing the selections

Checkbox example

Installation

gem install inquirer

Compatibility

Ruby	Linux	OS X	Windows
MRI 1.9.3	✔	✔	✘
MRI 2.0.0	✔	✔	✘
Rubinius 2.1.1	✔	✔	✘
Rubinius 2.2.1	✔	✔	✘
JRuby 1.7.x	✘	✘	✘

Credit

This is basically the wonderful Inquirer.js, just done for ruby. I was unable to find a good gem to handle user interaction in ruby as well as this module does in JS.

License

Apache v2 Author: Dominik Richter