Rico JSON

Description

A gem to open ugly one-line-not-indented JSON files in a way that you can read them.

By default it the JSON (prettified with Ruby's JSON library) to your standard output. You can also pass the -o parameter for it to open the JSON file in your system's default application or text editor for files with the .json extension.

It works only on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X (theoretically).

Install

$ gem install ricojson

Usage

Flags:

  -f file       Read JSON from specified file.
  -o            Opens the resulting formatted JSON in your default
                text editor.
  -h            Prints help message.

Examples

You can just display a JSON file with it:

$ ricojson -f my-terrible-not-indented-json-file.json

Or pipe a file's content:

$ cat other-terrible-not-indented-file.json | ricojson

And display an API's JSON return value directly from your command line:

$ curl https://mnav.heroku.com/artworks/62 | ricojson

And if you want to see this in your default app/text editor use the -o parameter:

$ ricojson -o -f my-terrible-not-indented-json-file.json

Acknowledgements

Thanks @dcadenas for pairing with me and helping me improve the code and functionality. Thanks @poteland for improving the command line options with clap.

Jason picture by Robert Ball - https://secure.flickr.com/photos/robertball/5588712222/ CC License

LICENSE

Copyright © 2014 - Fernando Briano

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.