inquirer.rb

Interactive user prompts on CLI for ruby.

Prompt types

List

idx = Ask.list "Look behind you...", [
  "a three-headed monkey!",
  "a pink pony",
  "Godzilla"
]
# idx is the selected index

Checkbox

Takes optional default property that define the checked options

idx = Ask.checkbox "Monkey see, monkey...", [
  "don't",
  "eats Banana",
  "do"
], default: [true, false, true]
# idx is an array containing the selections

Input

Takes optional default property (string).

firstname = Ask.input "What's your name"
phone = Ask.input "What's your phone number", default: "123"
# name and phone are the responses for each question

Confirm

Takes optional default property (true or false). The default default value is true.

value = Ask.confirm "Are you sure?"
# value is a boolean

Ask.confirm "Are you sure?", default: false
# Default is false

Options

Method parameters

• question: string The text to your are going to ask
• elements: array Array of options to show. Only for checkbox and list types.

Rendering options

You can pass this options as the lastest parameter

• clear: bool [Default true] Clear the original question after pressing enter
• response: bool [Default true] Whether to show the selected response

# If you dont want any output use
Ask.input "What's your name", response: false

# If you don't want the response and you want to keep the question prompt
Ask.input "What's your name", clear: false, response: false

Installation

gem install inquirer

Compatibility

Ruby	Linux	OS X	Windows
MRI 1.9.3	✔	✔	✘
MRI 2.0.0	✔	✔	✘
Rubinius 2.1.1	✔	✔	✘
Rubinius 2.2.1	✔	✔	✘
JRuby 1.7.x	✘	✘	✘

Contributors

Thank you for contributing!

• blackjid

Credit

This is basically the wonderful Inquirer.js, just done for ruby. I was unable to find a good gem to handle user interaction in ruby as well as this module does in JS.

License

Apache v2 Author: Dominik Richter