# Initial release of lightning

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/initial-release-of-lightning/186617>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 9, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/initial-release-of-lightning/186617 "2010-04-09T20:40:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![ghorner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@ghorner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ghorner)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/initial-release-of-lightning/186617/1 "2010-04-09T20:40:46Z")

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Hi rubyists,  
I’m announcing lightning, a gem to speed up your commandline  
experience. Lightning does this by generating functions which wrap  
around commands and translate basenames to their full paths. For  
example:

```
$ cd-gem bacon-1.1.0
# Same as cd /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/bacon-1.1.0

$ less-ruby fileutils.rb
# Same as less /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/

```

1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb

Lightning’s functions also autocomplete the basenames it can  
translate. For more info:

- Install with: gem install lightning
- Intro post:  
[Tagaholic - Lightning - Speed For Your Shell](http://tagaholic.me/2010/04/08/lightning-speed-for-your-shell.html)
- User’s guide:  
[Tagaholic - Lightning - Speed For The User](http://tagaholic.me/2010/04/09/lightning-speed-for-the-user.html)
- Homepage: [Tagaholic - lightning](http://tagaholic.me/lightning)

Enjoy,  
Gabriel