Whirly

Whirly terminal spinner for Ruby, influenced by ora, includes cli-spinners.

ALPHA RELEASE FOR EURUKO

Setup

Add to your Gemfile:

gem 'whirly'
gem 'paint' # makes whirly colorful (recommended)

Usage

Basic Usage

Whirly.start do
  Whirly.status = "Working on it…"
  sleep 3
  Whirly.status = "Almoste done…
  sleep 2
end

Non-Block Syntax, World Spinner

Whirly.start spinner: "world"
Whirly.status = "Working on it…"
sleep 3
Whirly.status = "Almoste done…"
Whirly.stop

No Colors, Pong Spinner, Initial Status

Whirly.start spinner: "pong", use_color: false, status: "The Game of Pong" do
  sleep 10
end

Slower Interval, Don't Hide Cursor

Whirly.start spinner: "clock", interval: 1000, hide_cursor: false do
  sleep 5
end

Included Spinners & Custom Spinners

• See data/cursors.json
• Spinners are either an Array of frames or an enumerator [...]
• Extra fun spinners :random_character, :random_emoticon (SOON)

Remarks, Troubleshooting, Caveats

• Interval is milliseconds, but don't rely on exact timing
• Will not do anything if stream is not a real console
• Colors not working? Be sure to include the paint gem
• Don't set very short intervals (or it might affect performance substantly)

MIT License

• Copyright (C) 2016 Jan Lelis http://janlelis.com. Released under the MIT license.
• Contains data from cli-spinners: MIT License, Copyright (c) Sindre Sorhus sindresorhus@gmail.com (sindresorhus.com)