Terminal Wedding – Ruby gem for Prerita and Jai's marriage

[jaip]

Author of the website here. The last thing a person who is getting married could wish would be getting his wedding invite HNed. I think I am soon going to cross the free plan's limit of typeform.com (which I am using for RSVPing there)

Little history: `sudo gem install wedding` actually works. The gem was first uploaded on rubygems. Which I thought would be the only thing that I would share with my colleagues and hacker friends. Later I realized that it would be too complex a thing to expect from people, so built a mock frontend around it using jcubic's jQuery terminal plugin.

I am happy that people are finding it funny / interesting. The website found its target audience. Just that I wouldn't be able to host this number of people ;-)

[expertmind]

Hey can I fork your wedding :) (You know what I mean)

[axus]

While looking at the RSVP form I never intended to send, I wondered how many people show up at a wedding in India? In some cultures, a thousand or more might just "drop by" for a little bit to pay their respects.

[sourabh86]

This is the coolest wedding invite I've ever seen! Just know, you've got a fan from Rajasthan...

[drdaeman]

Each time I see web-based terminal with *nix-looking shell prompt inside it ends up like this:

    ...
    Successfully installed wedding-0.0.1
    7 gems installed
    root@wedding ~$ which wedding
    which is not a valid command
    root@wedding ~$ whoami
    whoami is not a valid command
    root@wedding ~$ id -a
    id is not a valid command
    root@wedding ~$ uname -a
    uname is not a valid command
    root@wedding ~$ ls -la
    -bash: cd: -la: No such file or directory
    root@wedding ~$ logout
    logout is not a valid command

(closes tab)

[expertmind]

Try this on your computer. $ sudo gem install wedding

[expertmind]

ha ha ;) of course, I tried running $ rm -rf /

[ryangripp]

This is awesome! However, 95% of my guests would be soo confused and we probably would receive a lot of phone calls/emails asking helpdesk questions.

"How does this work" "So we tried the website and we wanted to let you know we will be coming..."

[stared]

Maybe it was the point. ;)

[hakim]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that the vows are pull requests.

[mzahir]

It took a while to pass the parental CI

[csmattryder]

Hope nobody has any issues at the wedding ceremony, and especially nobody wants to take over the project afterwards!

I always love an interactive shell prompt on the net.

[expertmind]

I hope there are no bugs in wedding :).

[nikhgupta]

Should be hell of a coincidence. Joined HackerNews today, and found a friend posting his wedding invitation on it.

Great concept.. :)

[koenigdavidmj]

I'm slightly ashamed to admit that the first thing I ever run on this type of thing is 'make me a sandwich'.

[vaidik]

Congratulations Jai! Awesome invite I must say! \m/ Super impressed!

[era86]

I'll get about 3 people MAX to my wedding with this... AWESOME!

[danpalmer]

This is quite funny. I wish RubyGems was really this fast though!

[pranny]

I absolutely loved this concept. I was surprised to some extent that this rubygem name is still available. Appreciated !!

[girvo]

I'm amazed at how well this works, in a WebView container no less, on my iPhone! Cool concept, too :)

[scilro]

Not my thing, but good for them.

[Symmetry]

Ok, that is actually geekier than the PCB wedding invite I got once. Well done.

[Jemaclus]

Very clever! My parents would not get this. At all. :P

[expertmind]

But all the geek will love it :). Its a real gem, so you can install it. Its the best way to invite other hacker friends. I hope there is no hackathon on wedding. :)

[ratsimihah]

So anyone can RSVP? Is that how weddings work?

[sumang]

Thats how Indian weddings are , everyone is invited. I remember my sisters wedding with 2800 people and no place to sit.

We Indians invite everyone we know, friends, friends of friends and our friends even invite their friends who we dont know.

Who can resist Indian wedding food ? :)

[sylvainkalache]

That is freaking awesome :)

[boddob]

shouldn't it be 12am? Or is the Pheres next afternoon?

[jaip]

Point taken, next commit fixes it. Thanks!

[titomc]

wohoo.. I been thinking what should I do for mine.

[roozbeh18]

no RI or RDOC yay

[chinchang]

innovative man!