From: "zzak (Zachary Scott)" <zachary@...> Date: 2012-12-23T01:38:45+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:51077] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6997] Improve documentation for OptionParser Issue #6997 has been updated by zzak (Zachary Scott). Thanks Marcus, I was holding off on this until I got around to some other patches I have in mind for OptionParser, but you beat me to it :) Re: remove further documentation: I think we should keep it, it doesn't hurt to mention the tracker if anyone comes across any bugs it will probably be documentation related when reading the optparse docs. ---------------------------------------- Bug #6997: Improve documentation for OptionParser https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6997#change-35013 Author: eike.rb (Eike Dierks) Status: Closed Priority: Normal Assignee: zzak (Zachary Scott) Category: DOC Target version: 2.0.0 ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-darwin10] The documentation for OptionParser should be improved. The current examples and and documentation do not yet describe how to access non option args I suggest to change the simple example in the doc as follows: opts.banner = "Usage: example.rb [options] file ..." p "files:" + ARGV It should be stated explicitely in the description, that parse! modifies the ARGV and removes all parseable args. At least that is how I believe that the OptionParser.parse! works? not yet tried it myself -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/