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Ruby replacement for bash+ssh

7 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2009-12-29 · latest 2026-05-23

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  1. …pushed me back to more conventional variant but they were really helpful learning mechanisms. 0: https://github.com/adamwiggins/rush 1: https://github.com/scheme/scsh
    comment by saysjonathan · 2026-05-23 · in Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby
  2. …of the founders of Heroku actually had a short-lived effort to build a Ruby-based shell called Rush https://github.com/adamwiggins/rush
    comment by cookrn · 2023-01-31 · in Rewrite it in Rust
  3. There actually far more more tools created so far, for example - https://github.com/adamwiggins/rush - https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh Its amazing that people still try this nowdays that pwsh solved it for all.
  4. https://github.com/adamwiggins/rush Its rush, a typo. I do not recommend it for serious usage, its more or less failed PoC. On the other hand, its basically the same as ergonomica, and I would prefer ruby to python when shell is in…
  5. …then it needs to be. Good luck driving Excel for example. There was similar attempt with Ruby ( https://github.com/adamwiggins/rush ) - but it failed because you do really need a special language for shell. Its pitty Xiki (…
    comment by majkinetor · 2017-01-15 · in Ask HN: How to effectively learn PowerShell?
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    Rush - Ruby replacement for bash+ssh
    story by albertzeyer · 2013-07-08 · 0 comments
  7. Rush is my new favorite. http://github.com/adamwiggins/rush A Ruby shell that allows you to do things like, local_dir = Rush::Box.new('localhost')['/Users/adam/server_logs/'].create servers = %w(www1 www2 www3).map { |n| Rush::Box.new(n) }…
    comment by mpk · 2009-12-29 · in A Recap of Cool Libraries for Ruby