Thor VS TTY

Compare Thor vs TTY and see what are their differences.

Thor

Thor is a toolkit for building powerful command-line interfaces. (by erikhuda)

TTY

Toolkit for developing sleek command line apps. (by piotrmurach)
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Thor TTY
10 7
5,077 2,465
0.1% -
7.3 0.0
6 days ago about 1 year ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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Thor

Posts with mentions or reviews of Thor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-14.
  • CLI tools at Aha!
    6 projects | dev.to | 14 Aug 2023
    Ruby has always been a great general-purpose scripting language and is often used to create command-line utilities. Many of these use the excellent Thor gem to parse command-line options, but there's no escaping one fact: command-line utilities just aren't interesting. Never have been, never will be.
  • How to Build Your Own Rails Generator
    3 projects | dev.to | 8 Feb 2023
    All public methods in the generator will be called one after the other. Private methods will not be called but are available in your public methods like regular Ruby classes.
  • Any opinionated tool / framework for creating binary CLI tools?
    2 projects | /r/devops | 12 Nov 2022
    ruby: http://whatisthor.com
  • Seeking recommendations or suggestions for learning Ruby to maintain the home directory?
    2 projects | /r/ruby | 8 Sep 2022
    I will add that if you want to develop a CLI tool that gives you various commands that you can run, I would have a look at something like thor to keep it organised and documented. But this is completely unnecessary as a first step - you can simply create a Ruby file that does a thing you want and invoke it directly.
  • Bootstrapping with Ruby on Rails Generators and Templates
    6 projects | dev.to | 11 May 2022
    Not to be confused with generator functions (which you might be familiar with from Python or Javascript), Rails generators are custom Thor commands that focus on, well, generating things.
  • Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs
    22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Feb 2022
  • Building a Dot Matrix Animator
    3 projects | dev.to | 10 Nov 2021
    I wanted to provide a command-line interface for the user that was easy to use, and I also wanted to provide the flexibility with the options used to render the animation. After looking around online I found that Thor was a good tool to utilize. It allowed me to easily create a number of options that make this program much more versatile. An example below shows how a user can select which folder the source images are in, as well as what the background and foreground colors should be:

TTY

Posts with mentions or reviews of TTY. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Thor and TTY you can also consider the following projects:

Rake - A make-like build utility for Ruby.

GLI - Make awesome command-line applications the easy way

Commander - The complete solution for Ruby command-line executables

dry-cli - General purpose Command Line Interface (CLI) framework for Ruby

Trollop - Optimist is a commandline option parser for Ruby that just gets out of your way.

Slop - Simple Lightweight Option Parsing - ✨ new contributors welcome ✨

Clamp - a Ruby command-line application framework

Cocaine

Ru - Ruby in your shell!