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What kind of terminal apps do you write? I havent had the need for one yet and am wondering what this tool is used for.
by piratebroadcast 10y ago
What kind of terminal apps do you write? I havent had the need for one yet and am wondering what this tool is used for.
- Exuma 10y agoI write a lot of internal tools and such, so that is where it's useful (nothing really public facing)
- VeejayRampay 10y agoMaybe not "apps" per se, but my three main use cases in my daily chores are: * A ruby script that deploys our application * A ruby script that cleans up the repository after deploy * A terminal-based git script that runs through all modified files, shows me the diff and allows me to either [c]ommit, [d]iscard changes, [s]kip or [q] before I commit. That last script is a prime candidate to use those tty-* gems.
- matt4077 10y agoI have a bunch of scientific data pipelines and have found rake to be an excellent tool for these. Same for a bunch of "housekeeping" scripts. Rake is seriously underrated I believe. It allows for dependencies and rules, figures out which steps are up-to-date and skips those, allows easy parallelisation etc. Much like make, but with the familiar and sane (ye beautiful) syntax of ruby and its extensive ecosystem.