Ruby JSON pipe pretty-printer

README.MD

A quick ruby command line to pretty-print piped json.

Usage

Put this somewhere in your path, with chmod +x, then:

curl http://myapp.com/stuff.json | json

json.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems' # 1.8.7
require 'bundler'
Bundler.setup
require 'json'

if STDIN.tty?
  puts 'your_command | json [--no-color]'
else
  data = JSON.parse(STDIN.read)
  if ARGV.include?('--no-color')
    puts JSON.pretty_generate(data)
  else
    require 'ap'
    ap data
  end
end

Do you need a Bundler?

You can also simply add the following to bashrc or zshrc

function json {
    ruby -rjson -e 'puts JSON.pretty_generate(JSON.parse(STDIN.read))'
}

Doesn't give you the color or the help, but works well enough.