# tj/terminal-table

Ruby ASCII Table Generator, simple and feature rich.

Repository: https://github.com/tj/terminal-table
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/terminal-table
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-06-22T18:22:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 62/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 88, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6447, "days_push": 72, "days_rel": 583, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1574, forks 124 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:05.841229+00:00)

## What it is
A Ruby gem that generates ASCII and Unicode formatted tables for terminal output. It supports headings, titles, alignment, separators, and multiline cell content.

## Use cases
- print tabular data in a ruby cli
- format cli output as a table
- generate ascii tables in ruby
- display data with headings and alignment in terminal
- render unicode tables from arrays of rows

## When to choose
- you need simple, dependency-light table rendering in a Ruby CLI
- you want ASCII or Unicode table output with headings, titles, and column alignment

## When to avoid
- you need rich HTML or GUI table rendering
- you are not working in Ruby

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: cli, developer-tools, terminal-ui
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: ruby, cli, cross-platform
- tags: ascii-table, unicode-table, text-formatting, terminal-output, command-line

## Member repositories
- tj/terminal-table (main) score 62

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:05.841229+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:57:55.386857+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tj/terminal-table (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:05.841229+00:00, sha 61c3dd719a66)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.