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  1. Tmuxinator

    Manage complex tmux sessions easily

    Project mention: Using TMUX and tmuxinator for a better docker compose experience | dev.to | 2026-05-02

    This tutorial provides a practical introduction to TMUX and how you can use tmuxinator to easily set up terminal dashboards with logs and shell sessions for your docker compose projects.

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  3. colorls

    A Ruby gem that beautifies the terminal's ls command, with color and font-awesome icons. :tada:

  4. Ruby/Progressbar

    Ruby/ProgressBar is a text progress bar library for Ruby.

  5. Terminal Table

    Ruby ASCII Table Generator, simple and feature rich.

  6. tty-prompt

    A beautiful and powerful interactive command line prompt

    Project mention: Show HN: RatatuiRuby Wraps Rust Ratatui as a RubyGem – TUIs with the Joy of Ruby | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-21

    Sure. I was probably trying to be too polite and didn't want to use the word "abandoned", but that's probably a better term for the library at this point. There's a good amount of open issues and PRs in many of the component gems that haven't been addressed in years and requests to help maintain it have gone unanswered[0].

    [0] https://github.com/piotrmurach/tty-prompt/issues/210

  7. HighLine

    A higher level command-line oriented interface.

  8. colorize

    Ruby string class extension. It add some methods to set color, background color and text effect on console easier using ANSI escape sequences.

  9. Terjira

    Terjira is a very interactive and easy to use CLI tool for Jira.

  10. Pastel

    Terminal output styling with intuitive and clean API. (by piotrmurach)

  11. tty-spinner

    A terminal spinner for tasks that have non-deterministic time frame.

  12. tty-progressbar

    Display a single or multiple progress bars in the terminal.

  13. git_curate

    ✂️ Peruse and delete git branches ergonomically

  14. tty-command

    Execute shell commands with pretty output logging and capture stdout, stderr and exit status.

  15. Paint

    Ruby gem for ANSI terminal colors 🎨︎ VERY FAST

  16. dry-cli

    General purpose Command Line Interface (CLI) framework for Ruby

  17. Tabulo

    Plain text table generator for Ruby, with a DRY, column-based API

  18. tty-table

    A flexible and intuitive table generator (by piotrmurach)

  19. jekyll-timeago

    ⌛ Ruby library to compute distance of dates in words. Originally built for Jekyll.

    Project mention: Jekyll-timeago: Ruby library to compute distance of dates in words | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-11

  20. 🦠 Kovid

    Fetch and compare COVID statistics in your CLI.

  21. circleci-cli

    :cyclone: CLI client / command line tool for CircleCI

  22. tty-screen

    Terminal screen detection - cross platform, major ruby interpreters

  23. tty-cursor

    Terminal cursor movement and manipulation of cursor properties such as visibility

  24. XDG

    A XDG Base Directory Specification implementation. (by bkuhlmann)

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source CLI Utility projects in Ruby? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 Tmuxinator 13,641
2 colorls 5,123
3 Ruby/Progressbar 1,597
4 Terminal Table 1,572
5 tty-prompt 1,561
6 HighLine 1,305
7 colorize 1,283
8 Terjira 904
9 Pastel 665
10 tty-spinner 440
11 tty-progressbar 434
12 git_curate 432
13 tty-command 405
14 Paint 384
15 dry-cli 354
16 Tabulo 247
17 tty-table 205
18 jekyll-timeago 152
19 🦠 Kovid 101
20 circleci-cli 93
21 tty-screen 91
22 tty-cursor 78
23 XDG 51

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