J
John Feminella
I am starting construction on a somewhat complicated internal
application whose primary interface will be the command line. In the
past, for similar projects, I've just used OptionParser, but I think I
need something a little beefier. Specifically, I think I need these
features:
* colorized output
* sensible option parsing
* sensible enumeration of options for help output
* support for `git`-like subcommands, e.g., `app create`, `app
delete`, etc., that can be intuitively and cleanly mapped to methods
* ability to be insensitive to option ordering, e.g. `app create --foo
quux --bar` should be semantically identical to `app create --bar
--foo quux`
Does that sort of thing exist? I've noticed there are some apparently
more powerful alternatives like Thor, which is more of a full-stack
scripting framework, and I'm wondering what else might be useful to
take a look at.
Any and all suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks!
application whose primary interface will be the command line. In the
past, for similar projects, I've just used OptionParser, but I think I
need something a little beefier. Specifically, I think I need these
features:
* colorized output
* sensible option parsing
* sensible enumeration of options for help output
* support for `git`-like subcommands, e.g., `app create`, `app
delete`, etc., that can be intuitively and cleanly mapped to methods
* ability to be insensitive to option ordering, e.g. `app create --foo
quux --bar` should be semantically identical to `app create --bar
--foo quux`
Does that sort of thing exist? I've noticed there are some apparently
more powerful alternatives like Thor, which is more of a full-stack
scripting framework, and I'm wondering what else might be useful to
take a look at.
Any and all suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks!