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Top 11 Ruby Console Projects
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I feel that writing out infrastructure templates through a "proper programming language" (for the lack of a better term) comes with some sharp tradeoffs that many don't recognize.
A big feature of most IaC tools is that they are relatively logic-less and therefore can be easily understood at a glance, allowing for easier reasoning about what resources can be created, and this ability is diminished by introducing logic, and debugging issues in them becomes a nightmare. A large company I used to work for had a system just like that, and while I thankfully never had to work with said system, hearing statements like you can "debug your templates with pry[1]" is something I hope to never hear again.
[1] https://github.com/pry/pry
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ronin
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)
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console_detective
A gem to track commands typed in ruby irb/pry console(rails too) along with tagging in realtime.
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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).
Ruby Console discussion
Ruby Console related posts
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Advanced Shell Scripting with Bash (2006) [pdf]
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Enhancing development with REPLs - A practical guide
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Free/low cost IDE recommendations please. :)
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Anyone else working through Michael Hartl's Learn Enough RoR Series that might be able to help me with a failing unit test?
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I made a tool to help cleanly copy & paste code from irb/pry sessions
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shell-maker: Make your own shell in 15 lines of elisp (batteries included)
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Simple MapReduce that melt my brain (yes, fibers there)
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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 | 6,818 |
| 2 | ronin | 738 |
| 3 | kaitai_struct_visualizer | 322 |
| 4 | tty-box | 189 |
| 5 | tty-reader | 95 |
| 6 | tty-screen | 91 |
| 7 | paralines | 46 |
| 8 | tty-pager | 42 |
| 9 | tty-sparkline | 30 |
| 10 | console_detective | 20 |
| 11 | lazy_names | 6 |
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