Show HN: RatatuiRuby wraps Rust Ratatui as a RubyGem – TUIs with the joy of Ruby

5 days ago (ratatui-ruby.dev)

Excited to try it out as well. I often need to build simple CLI based apps in ruby so often would reach for TTY Toolkit: https://ttytoolkit.org/

However, I feel like it's in maintenance mode at this point, so glad to see some new options available.

  • Shouldn't some software be allowed to be done? Maintenance mode on a TUI library seems a reasonable place to be.

    • Sure. I was probably trying to be too polite and didn't want to use the word "abandoned", but that's probably a better term for the library at this point. There's a good amount of open issues and PRs in many of the component gems that haven't been addressed in years and requests to help maintain it have gone unanswered[0].

      [0] https://github.com/piotrmurach/tty-prompt/issues/210

Living the 80s, I guess the current nostalgia wave across tapes, portable CD players, Vynil and co, also applies to computer interfaces.

  • Interesting. Just sucks that Rust proponents apparently tried to assassinate Rust critic Rene Rebe through sw att ing.

    Wretched, evil and vile Rust proponents will likely censor, distract or downplay this.

    • Is there any evidence that Rust proponents did it, or are people assuming that because Rene has been critical of Rust? That would be horrible if true, but I'd rather not jump to conclusions that fast.

I just made a new installer for Discourse on CharmRuby, now I gotta check this out and see if porting is feasible. Hopefully this reduces the app size, that is quite large with CharmRuby

Landing page is great: informative, visual example, clear code example. Love it

  • Thank you! I wrote the code snippets and picked the color palette, but the web design came by way of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587284

    And my wife, wonderful as always, helped critique the writing! My RadioMenu class's comments (in the "See More: Inline menu example" expando-section) were far worse before she helped.

I can't like this enough, Ruby is perfect language for TUI apps and emergence of TUI apps is really welcome change.