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BoxCars is an open-source gem that helps you add AI-powered features to your Ruby app.
Once the gem is installed and set up, you can add text-to-command features to your apps. If you've used AI-powered apps recently, you've seen the interaction pattern where you can ask AI to request an image (text-to-image). This gem makes it trivial to offer this in your app.
Let's say you have a helpdesk app written in Rails. You'll be able to let your users type requests like the following:
Assign all of Pedro's tickets to Paula
Has Pedro mentioned "install dropbox" in his ticket comments?
BoxCars lets you offer a text-to-command interface to the functionality in your app.
BoxCars has 2 concepts.
- Engine: This is a LLM (Large-Language-Model). Currently, OpenAI's GPT is supported. New ones are easy to add.
- BoxCar: A BoxCar is functionality the Engine can access (Google Search, Calculators, ActiveRecord, etc)
To use the gem, you'll need an OpenAI API Key. You'll set this to the value OPENAI_ACCESS_TOKEN). Other BoxCars have their own dependencies. For eg: The BoxCar Google Search uses the SERP API and needs a SERPAPI_API_KEY