Comment by pythonaut_16

18 days ago

Looks exciting!

Does it have proper support for opening an external editor (via $EDITOR like nano, vim, etc?)? I ran into issues with that in Ink and had to switch over to Bubbletea, but I'd love to use Ruby instead of Go

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Kerrick  17 days ago

Yes! While there's nothing built-in for that, you have full control over when you enter or exit raw mode, so your TUI can support opening an external editor. The TL;DR is you need to call `RatatuiRuby.restore_terminal` before handing off to $EDITOR, and you can call `RatatuiRuby.init_terminal` again to re-enter your TUI.

Here's an example: https://www.ratatui-ruby.dev/docs/trunk/examples/app_externa...

Also, if you enjoy Ink and Bubbletea, you probably enjoy MVU. If that's the case, check out the upcoming Rooibos framework I'm building on RatatuiRuby: https://rooibos.run. (Caveat: it doesn't yet have a way to restore/init the terminal, but I clearly need to make that happen.)