ShellRB - Unix shell commands using Ruby

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.

Example

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

Why ShellRB

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.

Installation

Prerequisites

1. 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.

2. Once you have the above installed, you will also need to install the rake gem. You can install that using:

gem install rake

Install ShellRB

1. Clone the repository using Git and cd into it:

git clone https://github.com/faraazahmad/shellrb.git
cd shellrb

2. Install the required gems:

rake install

ShellRB is now installed. You can now run it using:

rake run

Updating the gems

To update the gems that ShellRB depends upon, just run:

rake update

Updating ShellRB

To get the latest build of ShellRB, (you may have guessed it), simply run:

rake upgrade

Contributing

Want to contribute to ShellRB? Great! You can find the contributing guidelines here.

Code of Conduct

We highly appreciate good behaviour and kind treatment of others. See our Code of Conduct.