Commonly agreed command line options gem?

[LAMBEAU Bernard]

Hi,

- Is there a commonly agreed gem for parsing command line options of a
script (ARGV) ?
- If no, does anyone know a good one ?

In all cases (as I'm relatively new to Ruby), what heuristic do you
use to select the gems you need? There actually a lot of gems
available and selecting the good one (still maintained, well tested,
famous ruby developers maybe (?), ...) is pretty hard to me.

Thanks
blambeau

 

[Jesús Gabriel y Galán]

Hi,

- Is there a commonly agreed gem for parsing command line options of a
script (ARGV) ?
- If no, does anyone know a good one ?

In all cases (as I'm relatively new to Ruby), what heuristic do you
use to select the gems you need? There actually a lot of gems
available and selecting the good one (still maintained, well tested,
famous ruby developers maybe (?), ...) is pretty hard to me.

OptionParser is in ruby core:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/OptionParser.html

I am very happy with Ara Howard's "main" gem, though.
It's very easy to use.

Jesus.

 

[Jarmo Pertman]

I am used GetoptLong class in stdlib:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/getoptlong/rdoc/index.html

Just look at that self-explanatory example and You're ready to go.

Regards,
Jarmo

 

[Sebastian W.]

Hi,

- Is there a commonly agreed gem for parsing command line options of a
script (ARGV) ?
- If no, does anyone know a good one ?

In all cases (as I'm relatively new to Ruby), what heuristic do you
use to select the gems you need? There actually a lot of gems
available and selecting the good one (still maintained, well tested,
famous ruby developers maybe (?), ...) is pretty hard to me.

Thanks
blambeau

My absolute favorite is "trollop". It is mega-mega awesome.