3 The Rubyist's interface to [Ncurses][].
5 [Ncurses]: <http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/> "ncurses - terminal text handling library"
9 As in, "Ncurses, Nfoiled Nagain!". Nfoiled is an object-oriented Ruby wrapper
10 for [ncurses-ruby][], and therefore, Ncurses. I really got tired of the
11 idiosyncrasies of Ncurses' API (it's written in a C style, not very clean, and
12 definitely not object-oriented)... since ncurses-ruby does nothing more than
13 make the C API available to Ruby as methods, it's no better. While working on
14 [rat][], I set out to abstract the ncurses-ruby API to a system of objects and
15 classes, in the truly Ruby style I'm used to. Now I've decided to abstract
16 this code out and make it available separately... hence Nfoiled!
18 [ncurses-ruby]: <http://ncurses-ruby.berlios.de/> "ncurses-ruby - access the ncurses library in Ruby"
19 [rat]: <http://github.com/elliottcable/rat> "rat - terminal chat client"
23 You can install Nfoiled as a pre-built gem, or as a gem generated directly
26 The easiest way to install Nfoiled is to use [RubyGems][] to acquire the
27 latest 'release' version from [RubyForge][], using the `gem` command line tool:
29 sudo gem install nfoiled # You'll be asked for your account password.
31 Alternatively, you can acquire it (possibly slightly more up-to-date,
32 depending on how often I update the gemspec) from GitHub as follows:
34 # If you've ever done this before, you don't need to do it now - see http://gems.github.com
35 gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
36 sudo gem install elliottcable-nfoiled # You'll be asked for your account password.
38 Finally, you can build a gem from the latest source yourself. You need [git][],
41 git clone git://github.com/elliottcable/nfoiled.git
43 rake install # You'll be asked for your account password.
45 [git]: <http://git-scm.com/> "git - Fast Version Control System"
46 [RubyGems]: <http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems/> "RubyGems - Ruby package manager"
47 [RubyForge]: <http://rubyforge.org/projects/nfoiled/> "Nfoiled on RubyForge"
51 You can contribute bug fixes or new features to Nfoiled by forking the project
52 on GitHub (you'll need to register for an account first), and sending me a
53 pull request once you've committed your changes.
57 - [GitHub](http://github.com/elliottcable/nfoiled "Nfoiled on GitHub")
58 is the project's primary repository host, and currently also the project's
60 - [RubyForge](http://rubyforge.org/projects/nfoiled "Nfoiled on RubyForge")
61 is out primary RubyGem host, as well as an alternative repository host
62 - [integrity](http://integrit.yreality.net/nfoiled "Nfoiled on yreality's integrity server")
63 is out continuous integration server - if the top build on that page is
64 green, you can assume the latest git HEAD is safe to run/install/utilize.
65 - [Gitorious](http://gitorious.org/projects/nfoiled "Nfoiled on Gitorious")
66 is an alternative repository host
67 - [repo.or.cz](http://repo.or.cz/w/nfoiled.git "Nfoiled on repo.or.cz")
68 is an alternative repository host
72 Nfoiled is copyright 2008 by elliott cable.
74 Nfoiled is released under the [GNU General Public License v3.0][gpl], which
75 allows you to freely utilize, modify, and distribute all Nfoiled's source code
76 (subject to the terms of the aforementioned license).
78 [gpl]: <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt> "The GNU General Public License v3.0"