Have you ever wanted to add a GUI to your ruby command line application. Didn't want to go the ncurses route? Well with Ruby's new Magic Mirror gem, you can build a stunning UI with html. No need to rewrite your code and do a massive MVC re-write, just require this gem, point it to an html public directory that includes and html index (and optionally javascripts and css files) and your UI is all set and standing by on 127.0.0.1:4567 by default.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'magic_mirror'And then execute:
$ bundle
rt = RubyTube.new
# Point RubyTube to where the html public directory is
rt.www_root = "gui/"
# Possibly some routes setup for Sinatra
# rt...
# start sinatra, faye/websockets and prints "browse to 127.0.0.1:4567"
rt.run!
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.
- Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/magic_mirror/fork )
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create a new Pull Request