ShellRB is a portable (Windows / Linux / macOS) implementation of Unix shell commands on top of the Ruby's modules. It is a command-line interface (CLI) toolkit written in Ruby, designed to simplify and improve your experience with interacting with command-line tools and processes. You can use it to eliminate your shell script's dependency on Unix, while still keeping its familiar and powerful commands.
Also, This toolkit provides a wide range of functionality, including command parsing, argument validation, option parsing, subcommand management, and more. It also provides a simple and intuitive way to create complex command-line interfaces for your Ruby applications. In this repository, you'll find all the necessary documentation, examples, and source code to install and use ShellRB.
Inspired from ShellJS/Shx.
Here's a sneak peek at how it feels to use ShellRB:
faraaz@SRB: /home/faraaz> ls
foo
bar
shellrb
...
faraaz@SRB: /> cd home
faraaz@SRB: /home> cd faraaz
faraaz@SRB: /home/faraaz> pwd
/home/faraaz
I've been using Linux for my development environment ever since I jumped onto the open-source bandwagon. Often, I've wondered, what would people do if they really wanted to use a Bash-like shell on Windows without the hassle of firing-up a Linux-based OS VM.
Enter ShellRB. The goal is to build a Bash-like shell in Ruby that runs cross-platform, is easy to maintain (has tests for every feature), and is friendly to new contributors.
- Make sure you have Ruby and Git installed (pretty obvious, right?).
On macOS, Ruby comes pre-installed, on Linux you can install it preferably using RVM, and on Windows, you may have to install Git and Ruby using their installers from here and here respectively.
- Once you have the above installed, you will also need to install the
rakegem. You can install that using:
gem install rake
- Clone the repository using Git and
cdinto it:
git clone https://github.com/faraazahmad/shellrb.git
cd shellrb
- Install the required gems:
rake install
ShellRB is now installed. You can now run it using:
rake run
To update the gems that ShellRB depends upon, just run:
rake update
To get the latest build of ShellRB, (you may have guessed it), simply run:
rake upgrade
Want to contribute to ShellRB? Great! You can find the contributing guidelines here.
We highly appreciate good behaviour and kind treatment of others. See our Code of Conduct.