JEG2/highline

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1308 stars · 136 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

HighLine is a Ruby library that provides a high-level, ergonomic interface for command-line input and output. It handles prompting, validation, type conversion, password masking, menus, and colored output so developers don't have to write low-level gets/puts plumbing.

Use cases

• ask users questions on the command line with validation
• prompt for passwords without echoing input
• build interactive terminal menus
• convert typed strings into typed values like Integer or Date
• print colored ANSI output in a terminal app
• collect validated user input in a Ruby CLI script

When to choose

• you are building an interactive Ruby command-line tool that prompts users for input
• you need robust input validation and type coercion without hand-rolling error checking
• you want password prompts, menus, or colored terminal output in Ruby

When to avoid

• you are building a GUI or web application rather than a terminal interface
• you need non-interactive or fully automated input pipelines
• your project is not in Ruby

Facets

library · maturity stable

cli developer-tools developer-tools ruby cli cross-platform console-input user-interaction validation menus password-prompt ansi-colors command-line

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