A simple script to play vt100 animations.

vtplayer.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# vtplayer.rb - A simple script to play vt100 animations.
# Made with ❤︎ by redperadot@darkgem.net - v0.1
#
# Some places to find vt100 animations:
# http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/
# http://www.scovetta.com/archives/textfiles/art

require 'open-uri'
Signal.trap("INT") { puts; exit 0 }
abort("[Error] Need a file to play. Give the path of a remote or local file as an argument.") if ARGV[0].nil?

path = ARGV[0]
file = ( path[0,4] == 'http' ? open(path).read : IO.read(path) )

$stdout.sync = true
file.each_char do |char|
  print char
  sleep 0.0005
end
puts