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Selene
Automation low level tool based on MQTT data. Optionnal backends to create "DRM/Cairo", "OLed", "LCD" or "Curses" graphical applications. (by destroyedlolo)
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dte
A small, configurable terminal text editor (mirrored from https://gitlab.com/craigbarnes/dte) (by craigbarnes)
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NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better curses alternative or higher similarity.
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We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
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CLI tools at Aha!
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.
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Ncurses in Ruby style?
https://github.com/ruby/curses is the official ncurses gem for ruby
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Ok y’all. How can we get this kind of real-time memory profiling in Ruby? Does it already exist? Is anyone working on this?
As a follow up, if anyone is interested in working on something like this, Ruby has an official curses gem supporting the curses family of libraries.
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Parallel progress output from different threads
First, a word of caution. "Updating" a terminal or console is possible, but it is rife with gotchas and inconsistencies. The go to library/application for this type of interfaces is Curses. There are Ruby bindings, but this injects a system dependency that may or may not be available on a given platform. Also, Curses is way overkill if all you're doing is output.
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ruby/curses is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of curses is C.
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