STDIN / ARGF support

[metapsj]

Is it possible to support STDIN / ARGF in mruby-cli?

I'm very new to the project and mruby.

After watching and reading a couple presentations about mruby-cli, I feel Hadoop and Spark stream based data processing for map-reduce jobs would be another great application of mruby-cli. In order to support stream based map-reduce in Hadoop and Spark, mruby-cli will need STDIN and ARGF support.

[Asmod4n]

Have written a small library which can handle STDIN like readline, https://github.com/Asmod4n/mruby-linenoise. It can kind of handle a file/pipe as input, but allocates as much ram as it gets input.

[toch]

@metapsj It's a good idea.

I don't think it's the role of mruby-cli to provide a solution to this for now. If your mruby-cli app requires to work with stdin, the best is to use a mruby gem doing that, as @Asmod4n suggested.

@Asmod4n is your mgem multi-platform?

[Asmod4n]

@toch currently would need cygwin on windows, but am investigating to use the ms open tech fork of it https://github.com/MSOpenTech/redis/tree/3.0/deps/linenoise

[toch]

thanks keep us informed. I'm thinking of listing useful mruby gems that are multi-plateform and can be used for mruby-cli apps.