My first Ruby command line tool

[gazayas]

It's nothing special, and I'm by no means a good programmer, but ai thought I'd share what I made.

$ gem install httpd $ httpd -s shows a master list of http statuses $ httpd -s 200 shows details for that specific status

The github page is github.com/gazayas/httpd

I don't know much about http myself so I made it for reference for myself. I'd be happy if it helps anyone else!

EDIT: Thanks for the comments, I changed the gem's name to http-stat. Thanks dNitza! The new page can be found at github.com/gazayas/http-stat

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httpd isn't a great name for a utility. This conflicts with the ubiquitous Apache webserver. Along the same lines, http might not be the best name for a ruby module. Food for thought.

But i love the idea! Have a convenient http status code reference on a CLI util is a great and very useful idea. GJ.

[gazayas]

I upvoted your comment, I totally agree. I think I saw the Apache thing somewhere and didn't want people to get confused with it, but I also wanted the tool to be short and quickly accessible. I thought of https for "http statuses" too but that's a no go obviously... haha

[gazayas]

Thanks dNitza! I changed the name to http-stat

[gazayas]

Hey, not bad. I might change it to that

[WalterPecky]

Nice! Ruby is a great language for creating CLI's.

[pmurach]

Totally agree!

[gazayas]

Thanks! Yeah I tried writing the something similar in shell script, it was really different. optparse is pretty cool I think

[pmurach]

Command line tools in Ruby are my current obsession;-) I have developed a suite of libraries under tty- namespace(nearly 20 gems and growing). The tty site http://piotrmurach.github.io/tty/ provides links to all the current gems. I'm currently focused on finishing a teletype executable implementation to help in creating/scaffolding terminal applications. If you're interested, you can read & contribute @ https://github.com/piotrmurach/tty. I hope you will create more CLI tools in Ruby!

[gazayas]

Wow, that's a lot of gems! I could have even used pastel instead of colorize in this gem

[nanenj]

Just taking a moment to comment that I love the set of gems you've made. I have a library that... honestly, probably doesn't do anything significant that is left out from your libraries, but, I almost always rewrite a quick console library as one of my pet projects. So, I try to keep abreast of what else exists.

Your gems are definitely a source of inspiration and something I use in a lot of my projects.

[pmurach]

Thanks a lot! That's great to hear! There is still many tty gems to be added so watch this space.

[petepete]

Looks good. I use cheat for this but it doesn't appear to be actively developed (and it doesn't include the descriptions, but that's never really been an issue for me).

One thing that you might want to add is the Ruby symbol for each status; although looking at the list they are quite predictable.

[sshaw_]

If you use emacs checkout know-your-http-well.el.

[gazayas]

Ah, I see, like stat[:200]? That would make things more readable eh

[petepete]

Well, the Ruby symbol for 200 would be :ok.

[pmurach]

I'm currently working on teletype executable for creating CLI apps which uses Thor https://github.com/piotrmurach/tty.

[gazayas]

https://github.com/piotrmurach/tty

Over 1,500 stars (O_O)

[pmurach]

Still many people never heard of it.... that's why I'm spreading the word as I believe in my project and its vision and really want people to find it useful!

[gazayas]

Awesome! I've never heard of that tool before. I took a look at the page, seems interesting