CLI tools at Aha!

• Thor

  10 5,087 6.9 Ruby

  Thor is a toolkit for building powerful command-line interfaces.

  

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.

• aws-codedeploy-agent

  20 322 6.1 Ruby

  Host Agent for AWS CodeDeploy

  

When we deploy code at Aha! we kick off a number of AWS CodeDeploy tasks running in parallel. Here's some code to simulate deployment:

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• curses

  4 285 2.8 C

  Ruby binding for curses, ncurses, and PDCurses. Formerly part of the ruby standard library.

  

As we make updates to our ops and similar CLI utilities, we often improve the user experience by taking advantage of various Ruby gems. With little effort compared to low-level coding with curses, our command-line utilities that used to be cryptic and confusing are now interactive, easy to use, and — dare I say — elegant.

• cli-ui

  3 962 7.9 Ruby

  CLI tooling framework with simple interactive widgets

  

I really enjoy using the cli-ui gem. It offers a lot of powerful, intuitive features including:

• Terminal Table

  1 1,506 0.0 Ruby

  Ruby ASCII Table Generator, simple and feature rich.

I used to write a lot of custom code to format tabular data in my CLI utilities. Thankfully, that stopped once I discovered terminal-table.

• ombre

  1 0 10.0 Ruby

Finally, here is a nice little gem created by Aha! director of software engineering, Justin Paulson. Ombre provides a fun way to spice up your output by rendering text with a gradient. Here's an example that prints zombie ipsum with a red, white, and blue tint:

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