Terminal Wedding – Ruby gem for Prerita and Jai's marriage (opens in new tab)

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 ;-)

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)

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..."

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

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

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.

So anyone can RSVP? Is that how weddings work?

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

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

Great concept.. :)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not my thing, but good for them.

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

That is freaking awesome :)

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

no RI or RDOC yay

innovative man!