Top 23 Ruby CLI Utility Projects

Tmuxinator

1 45 12,978 6.2 Ruby

Manage complex tmux sessions easily

Project mention: How to automate the launch of your terminal processes (fzf + tmux + teamocil) | dev.to | 2024-11-27

The next step will be a tool that can help us achieve fast bootstrapping of the projects (sessions), it can be either teamocil or tmuxinator, these are the most popular ones and in this tutorial, I will use teamocil. Those tools allow you to write a configuration for a specific session and run this session with many processes and windows in one click.
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colorls

2 9 5,004 6.2 Ruby

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

Project mention: I made an ls alternative for my personal use it turned out to be amazing | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-24
Ruby/Progressbar

3 0 1,577 0.0 Ruby

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

4 1 1,554 6.0 Ruby

Ruby ASCII Table Generator, simple and feature rich.
tty-prompt

5 5 1,490 6.0 Ruby

A beautiful and powerful interactive command line prompt
HighLine

6 1 1,295 7.5 Ruby

A higher level command-line oriented interface.
colorize

7 6 1,264 3.9 Ruby

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

8 0 894 0.0 Ruby

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

9 0 645 5.0 Ruby

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

10 0 431 5.3 Ruby

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

11 2 430 4.5 Ruby

✂️ Peruse and delete git branches ergonomically
tty-progressbar

12 2 429 6.7 Ruby

Display a single or multiple progress bars in the terminal.
tty-command

13 0 398 6.6 Ruby

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

14 1 378 4.3 Ruby

Ruby gem for ANSI terminal colors 🎨︎ VERY FAST
dry-cli

15 2 333 5.9 Ruby

General purpose Command Line Interface (CLI) framework for Ruby

Project mention: CLI in ruby using OptionParser or GetoptLong | dev.to | 2024-04-27

Few days ago I've created a script for the project I'm working on. It was an ugly script with hardcoded values, but it did ther job - create tokens on request. But I've decided to improve it a bit, because sometimes I needed to change params and I've added ability to submit params from the command line. Of course, there are a lot of awesome libraries such as dry-cli, TTY Toolkit or cli-kit from Shopify, but in most cases you can use standard ruby libraries like OptionParser or GetoptLong. Lets see how you can create a CLI utils with those libraries just in few minutes.
Tabulo

16 0 246 4.2 Ruby

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

17 0 196 4.4 Ruby

A flexible and intuitive table generator (by piotrmurach)
🦠 Kovid

18 0 102 0.0 Ruby

Fetch and compare COVID statistics on the CLI.
tty-screen

19 0 88 8.2 Ruby

Terminal screen detection - cross platform, major ruby interpreters
circleci-cli

20 0 86 8.5 Ruby

:cyclone: CLI client / command line tool for CircleCI
tty-cursor

21 0 75 5.5 Ruby

Terminal cursor movement and manipulation of cursor properties such as visibility
XDG

22 0 47 7.7 Ruby

A XDG Base Directory Specification implementation. (by bkuhlmann)
tty-pager

23 0 41 4.8 Ruby

Terminal output paging - cross-platform, major ruby interpreters
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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	12,978
2	colorls	5,004
3	Ruby/Progressbar	1,577
4	Terminal Table	1,554
5	tty-prompt	1,490
6	HighLine	1,295
7	colorize	1,264
8	Terjira	894
9	Pastel	645
10	tty-spinner	431
11	git_curate	430
12	tty-progressbar	429
13	tty-command	398
14	Paint	378
15	dry-cli	333
16	Tabulo	246
17	tty-table	196
18	🦠 Kovid	102
19	tty-screen	88
20	circleci-cli	86
21	tty-cursor	75
22	XDG	47
23	tty-pager	41