Shelly is a small tool designed to create interactive shells out of common terminal commands.

To install Shelly, clone this repo, then run rake install from its root. Alternatively, run rake build to generate a gem in pkg/shelly-VERSION.gem and install that normally.

If you need to include Shelly in one of your projects, you can add the following to your Gemfile:

gem 'shelly', :git => 'git://github.com/davidh-raybeam/shelly.git'

Shelly requires ruby1.9 (or ruby1.8 with a backported shellwords library) built with readline support.

To make a shell with shelly, simply invoke it with the prefix you'd like each command to have. For example,

$ shelly git

starts an interactive session where each command entered is prefixed with git and run in your default shell.

To create an executable script, run shelly --script COMMAND_PREFIX.