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knowitnone3
This is awesome, will definitely take this for a spin!
rubyfan
Looks really interesting, I’m excited to explore this.
cswilliams
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.

desireco42
I can't like this enough, Ruby is perfect language for TUI apps and emergence of TUI apps is really welcome change.
rbitar
Fantastic, this looks excellent and excited to try it
xfalcox
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
iddan
Landing page is great: informative, visual example, clear code example. Love it
rufugee
Looking forward to experimenting with it. Looks awesome!
pythonaut_16
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

Kerrick
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.)

pjmlp
Living the 80s, I guess the current nostalgia wave across tapes, portable CD players, Vynil and co, also applies to computer interfaces.
anon5739483
Thank you for enabling my Ruby addiction. This looks amazing. Great work!
jarek83
It looks great overall, but the example browser is something really special! Never seen such detailed walkthroughs before.
somebehemoth
How significant are AI contributions to this project?
kasane_teto
I’m gonna look into this. I was originally going to use the curses gem for my ruby tui apps but dealing with straight curses gets annoying quick. Thanks!