Awesome Ruby CLI Apps

A curated list of awesome command-line applications in Ruby.

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Contents

• Awesome Ruby CLIs
  • Automation
  • Code Quality
  • Converting
  • Database
  • DevOps
  • Games
  • Generating
  • Learning
  • Linting
  • Miscellaneous
  • Package Management
  • Profiling
  • Release
  • Search
  • Security
  • Third-party APIs
  • Workflow
• License
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Awesome Ruby CLIs

Automation

• danger - Automates team's conventions surrounding code review.
• git-pr-release - Creates a release pull request from production-ready branches.
• git_reflow - Automatically creates pull requests and ensures code review process.
• guard - Automates tasks based on file or directory modifications.
• overcommit - Automates management and configuration of Git hooks.
• pronto - Automates code review of relevant changes.

Code Quality

• flay - Analyzes code for structural similarities.
• flog - Reports the most tortured/complex code.
• rails_best_practices - Checks the quality of Rails code.
• reek - Detects code smells.
• rubocop - Analyzes and formats code based on the community style guide.
• rubycritic - Uses Reek, Flay and Flog to provide a code quality report.

Converting

• asciidoctor - Converts AsciiDoc content to HTML 5, DocBook 5, and other formats.
• asciidoctor-pdf - Converts AsciiDoc content to PDF.
• image_optim - Optimizes images using multiple utilities.
• kitabu - Creates e-books from Markdown.
• review - Converts Re:VIEW files to e-book formats.
• video_transcoding - Transcodes, inspects and converts videos.

Database

• database_consistency - Checks database constraints for consistency with Rails model validations.
• lol_dba - Scans your Rails application for missing indexes.
• pgdexter - Creates Postgres indexes based on query analysis.
• pgslice - Partitions Postgres tables.
• pgsync - Syncs data from one Postgres database to another.
• squasher - Compresses old Rails migrations into a single migration.

DevOps

• dip - Gives the "native" interaction with applications configured with Docker Compose.
• foreman - Manages Procfile-based applications.
• vagrant - Builds and distributes development environments.

Games

• wolfentext3d - 3D dungeon crawling game.

Generating

• annotate - Comments Rails models with database schema information.
• github-changelog-generator - Generates a changelog from tags, issues, labels and pull requests on GitHub.
• jazzy - Generates documentation for Objective-C or Swift applications.
• pliny - Generates endpoints, models, schemas and other APIs.
• sord - Generates RBI and RBS type signature files from YARD documentation.
• tapioca - Generates RBI type signature files for DSLs, gems and Rails applications.
• tty - Generates a new application and commands in a gem directory structure.

Learning

• coltrane - Teaches music theory.

Linting

• cookstyle - Lints Chef Infra cookbooks.
• csvlint - Validates CSV files.
• erblint - Lints ERB or HTML files.
• haml-lint - Keeps HAML files clean and readable.
• jsonlint - Lints JSON files.
• markdownlint - Lints Markdown files.
• puppet-lint - Checks Puppet manifests conformity with the style guide.
• scss-lint - Lints SCSS files.
• slim-lint - Lints Slim templates.
• yard-junk - Lints YARD documentation.

Miscellaneous

• doomfire - Animates Doom fire.
• lolcat - Displays output in rainbow colours.

Package Management

• brew - Manages packages for MacOS.
• cocoapods - Manages dependencies for Xcode projects.
• gel - Manages gem dependencies.

Profiling

• derailed_benchmarks - Provides various benchmarks for a Rails application.
• fasterer - Suggests speed improvements based on common idioms.
• rbspy - Profiles processes that are already running.
• ruby-prof - Profiles code measuring elapsed time, allocations or memory.
• stackprof - Profiles code by sampling call-stacks.
• typeprof - Performs type analysis.

Release

• bump - Increments the version number of a gem and a chef-cookbook.
• fastlane - Automates building and releasing iOS and Android apps.
• fpm - Builds packages such as rpms, debs, OSX packages, etc.
• ocra - Builds Windows executables from source code.
• rubyc - Packs a Ruby application into a single executable.
• warbler - Makes a Java jar or war file out of any Ruby, Rails or Rack application.

Search

• colorls - Enhances the ls command output.
• faker-bot - Looks up Faker methods.
• gemdiff - Finds source repositories for gems.
• license_finder - Finds licenses for the project's dependencies.

Security

• brakeman - Scans Rails applications for security vulnerabilities.
• bundler-audit - Audits a project's Gemfile.lock for vulnerable gems and insecure gem sources.
• haiti-hash - Identifies hash functions.
• pws - Provides a secure password safe.
• wpscan - Scans WordPress websites for security vulnerabilities.

Third-party APIs

• 3llo - Trello client.
• t - Twitter power tool.
• terjira - Jira client.
• twterm - Twitter client.

Workflow

• doing - Manages a plain text to-do list in the TaskPaper format.
• git_fame - Displays contribution statistics for git repository collaborators.
• gitsh - Runs an interactive shell for git.
• octodown - Previews GitHub flavoured Markdown.
• textbringer - Runs Emacs-like text editor.
• tmuxinator - Creates and manages tmux sessions.

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