A web-based AI chatbot styled like a retro COBOL terminal, powered by Ruby on Rails and OpenAI. TARS brings sarcastic wit and accurate information together in one dry-humored assistant, just like its namesake from Interstellar.
- Interactive Terminal UI – Styled after a COBOL-era system with line numbers, fixed-width font, and blinking cursor.
- Sarcastic AI Personality – Emulates TARS’s dry humor while ensuring answers are accurate, helpful, and fact-based.
- Conversation Memory – Maintains a lightweight message history for context-aware replies.
- Rate Limiting – Limits users to 25 messages per hour using Rails session tracking.
- OpenAI Integration – Uses GPT-3.5-turbo for generating chat responses.
- Ruby on Rails – Backend server, routing, and session management
- HTML + CSS + JS – Frontend interface styled with custom retro terminal aesthetics
- OpenAI API – AI chatbot logic (via
openaiRuby gem) - Sessions – Used for simple rate limiting (no user authentication required)
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/tars-ai-terminal.git cd tars-ai-terminal