https://github.com/apainintheneck/gemview
An unofficial TUI for querying rubygems.org
https://github.com/apainintheneck/gemview
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An unofficial TUI for querying rubygems.org
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/apainintheneck/gemview
- Owner: apainintheneck
- License: mit
- Created: 2024-11-30T00:07:34.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-08-31T06:58:48.000Z (10 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-12-02T06:43:03.138Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: gems, ruby
- Language: Ruby
- Homepage: https://rubygems.org/gems/gemview
- Size: 3.01 MB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 3
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- License: LICENSE.txt
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# Gemview
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An unofficial TUI interface for querying information from rubygems.org. It uses the [gems](https://rubygems.org/gems/gems) gem internally. It requires the presence of the `less` pager and is tested on macOS and Linux.
Note: This gem is not directly affiliated with `rubygems.org`. It's just a hobby project.
## Usage
```
Commands:
gemview author USERNAME # Find gems by rubygems.org username
gemview info NAME # Show gem info
gemview releases # List the most recent new gem releases
gemview search TERM # Search for gems
gemview updates # List the most recent gem updates
gemview version # Print version
```
## Navigation
For menus the arrow keys and j/k can be used for movement. Press enter to select a choice and escape or q to return to the previous menu or quit.
For paged content `less` is used internally so all the normal navigation commands work as expected.
## Demo
## Implementation
Changelog and readme fetching is only supported for `github.com` and `gitlab.com` currently. This works by parsing the URI associated with one of these two sites from gem metadata, building a new URI associated with the given file and trying to download it as a raw file. Let me know if there are any other platforms I should add support for.
Markdown highlighting is added on a best effort basis and if the parser fails for some reason it just falls back to the raw text file.
## Development
### Testing & Linting
```console
$ rake
```
### Testing
```console
$ rake spec
```
### Linting
```console
$ rake standard
$ rake standard:fix
```
## Contributing
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/apainintheneck/gemview.
## License
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the [MIT License](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).