Top 11 Ruby Console Projects

Pry

35 6,718 7.2 Ruby

A runtime developer console and IRB alternative with powerful introspection capabilities.

Project mention: Ruby 3.3 | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-24

that's surprising considering `pry`[1] is such an amazing debugger IMO.
[1] https://github.com/pry/pry

ronin

8 624 7.7 Ruby

Ronin is a Free and Open Source Ruby Toolkit for Security Research and Development. Ronin also allows for the rapid development and distribution of code, exploits, payloads, etc, via 3rd party git repositories. (by ronin-rb)

Project mention: Ronin: Free and Open Source Ruby Toolkit for Security Research and Development | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-19

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kaitai_struct_visualizer

2 271 7.6 Ruby

Kaitai Struct: visualizer and hex viewer tool

Project mention: Reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-14

tty-box

0 179 0.0 Ruby

Draw various frames and boxes in your terminal window
tty-reader

1 86 0.0 Ruby

A set of methods for processing keyboard input in character, line and multiline modes.
tty-screen

0 83 8.2 Ruby

Terminal screen detection - cross platform, major ruby interpreters
paralines

2 44 0.0 Ruby

Nice output to console/file from concurrent threads
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tty-pager

0 39 4.3 Ruby

Terminal output paging - cross-platform, major ruby interpreters
tty-sparkline

2 30 4.0 Ruby

Sparkline charts for terminal applications.
console_detective

2 20 0.0 Ruby

A gem to track commands typed in ruby irb/pry console(rails too) along with tagging in realtime.
lazy_names

1 4 4.5 Ruby

Ease your console typing with redefining constants by shorter version

Project mention: lazy_names gem, lets you type less | dev.to | 2024-02-22

The gem is accessible on both RubyGems and GitHub. Feel free to contribute, engage in discussions, report issues, or simply give it a try – you might just find the tool you've been seeking!

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 Console projects in Ruby? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	Pry	6,718
2	ronin	624
3	kaitai_struct_visualizer	271
4	tty-box	179
5	tty-reader	86
6	tty-screen	83
7	paralines	44
8	tty-pager	39
9	tty-sparkline	30
10	console_detective	20
11	lazy_names	4