pbcopy

Pbcopy

Enables piping and redirecting into pbcopy from within Ruby.

Mac OS X only.

This lib is intended as a development aid, not a production utility.

Note that this adds String#|

Pipe strings into pbcopy

On the command line you might do

$ which ruby | pbcopy

Which would copy the location of the ruby binary into your system's paste board. Later you could retrieve it with Command-V.

In Ruby you can pipe any string into pbcopy to achieve the same result

RUBY_VERSION | pbcopy
User.last.login | pbcopy

Redirect arbitrary objects into pbcopy

On the command line you might do

$ pbcopy < some_file

In Ruby you can do

pbcopy < 123
pbcopy < [4, 5, 6]

You can redirect any arbitrary object into pbcopy, it will be turned into a string and placed in the system clipboard

Shorter more Ruby-like version of redirect

You can omit the chevron when redirecting into pbcopy

pbcopy 123
pbcopy [4, 5, 6]

Make available in irb / pry

$ echo 'require "pbcopy"' >> ~/.irbrc
$ echo 'require "pbcopy"' >> ~/.pryrc

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'pbcopy'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install pbcopy