commandline gem

[ara.t.howard]

i think it was jim freeze that realased a gem for quickly building commandline
applications, does anyone remember where it's gone too? i only found a dead
project on rubyforge...

thanks.

-a

 

[Joel VanderWerf]

i think it was jim freeze that realased a gem for quickly building
commandline
applications, does anyone remember where it's gone too? i only found a
dead
project on rubyforge...

thanks.

-a

This seems to have a downloadable gem:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/optionparser/

I've got that gem installed and the docs suggest that it includes the
commandline app framework, but I haven't used it. The file
commandline/application.rb is included, so that looks promising.

 

[Ben Bleything]

i think it was jim freeze that realased a gem for quickly building
commandline applications, does anyone remember where it's gone too? i
only found a dead project on rubyforge...

You're not thinking of highline, are you?

http://highline.rubyforge.org/

I also know that I mentioned recently that I was working on one, but
it's not released yet, sadly.

Ben

 

[ara.t.howard]

This seems to have a downloadable gem:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/optionparser/

I've got that gem installed and the docs suggest that it includes the
commandline app framework, but I haven't used it. The file
commandline/application.rb is included, so that looks promising.

thanks a bunch joel - that's great!

so - have rolled your own framework just like the rest of us? ;-)

-a

 

[ara.t.howard]

You're not thinking of highline, are you?

http://highline.rubyforge.org/

nope, but thanks for reminding me of that! perfect for this talk...

I also know that I mentioned recently that I was working on one, but it's
not released yet, sadly.

heh. i've got one too. sigh.


-a

 

[Joel VanderWerf]

thanks a bunch joel - that's great!

so - have rolled your own framework just like the rest of us? ;-)

Nah, not me. I'd consider using this or highline (do they even solve the
same problem?).

Do you have plans to do a comparison and post the results?

 

[ara.t.howard]

Nah, not me. I'd consider using this or highline (do they even solve the
same problem?).

no. but commandline looks very nice. it didn't exist when i wrote mine (part
of alib) or i would have used it.

Do you have plans to do a comparison and post the results?

i'm doing a small one for a class as we speak. perhaps it'll motivate me to
doccument mine!

cheers.

-a

 

[gga]

Nah, not me. I'd consider using this or highline (do they even solve the
same problem?).

They don't. Highline is something unique. It allows the easy
creation of command-line applications that ask you questions on a
local machine, like Eliza.

Commandline, on the other hand, is mainly a replacement/alternative to
getopt or optparse. For that, there's also my port of Perl's
Getopt:eclare: http://getoptdeclare.rubyforge.org/ -- Declare.rdoc
for documentation.

 

[Jan Friedrich]

quickly building commandline applications

http://trollop.rubyforge.org/

I like it.

regards
Jan