A nice wrapper around ncurses for ruby: Works like a charm!

This is a fork of the snowleopard-ncurses gem, because this is the only wrapper I found that works on my Mac with Lion.

The primary goals are:

• Create a Ruby Wrapper around ncurses that feels like Ruby and not like C without semicolons
• Run out of the box with the preinstalled version of ncurses on Mac OS X Lion and Ubuntu with Ruby 1.9
• Write it test-driven with minitest/spec as far as possible

Currently the gem provides you with a library called ncurses which is identical to the original snowleopard-ncurses gem (require 'ncurses'). Step by step the features will be ported to Ruby.

Even though this is currently just a cleaned up version of the snowleopard-ncurses gem, this will be released today. Why? Because today is why-day. The DSL for creating the commandline interfaces will be similiar to the Shoes DSL for creating GUIs. I think this is a good match for a why-day release and by next why-day the 1.0 version will be released. And I had to release something at Why-Day.

Thanks to the people who developed the original gem:

• (C) 2002, 2003, 2004 Tobias Peters [email protected]
• (C) 2004 Simon Kaczor [email protected]
• (C) 2005 2006 Tobias Herzke [email protected]

A list of people that helped with the original gem:

• Akinori MUSHA (knu at idaemons dot org)
• Jan Becvar (jan dot becvar at solnet dot cz)
• Juergen Daubert
• Doug Kearns
• Simon Kaczor (skaczor at cox dut net)
• Hiroshi Sainohira
• Andreas Schwarz
• Simon Strandgaard
• Paul Duncan
• Tim Sutherland
• Earle Clubb
• Zach Dennis (for the examples)

Even though this should have been delivered with an onion, all you get is an ASCII Art Fox. Sorry for that.

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