How to do a textbox in terminal ruby applications?

Question

How to do a textbox in terminal ruby applications? Is there a gem for this or it can be done using pure ruby.

Answer 1

If you are on Ruby 1.9.x, you can take a look at rbcurse, a

ruby based curses widgets: fields, buttons, textarea. menus, message boxes, tabbed panes, tables, listboxes, splitpanes, scrollpanes. Event based, MVC architecture.

The developer recently split the functionality up into

• https://github.com/rkumar/rbcurse-core
• https://github.com/rkumar/rbcurse-extras
• https://github.com/rkumar/rbcurse-experimental