From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2005-06-28T12:39:23+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Application-0.6.0

* Levin Alexander <levin@grundeis.net> [2005-06-25 13:53:17 +0900]:

> Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> wrote:
> 
> Great!  However, arguments with options do not seem to work correctly
> 
> $ cat testapp.rb
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'commandline'
> 
> # A minimum application
> class App < CommandLine::Application
>   def initialize
>     option :debug, :arity => [1,1],
>            :opt_description => "Set debug level from 0 to 9"
> 
>     args :file1, :file2

Here, you are telling the app to expect two arguments.

>     super
>   end
> end #class App
> 
> $ ./testapp.rb --debug 2 file1 file2

This results in:

  @file1 #=> "2"
  @file2 #=> "file1"

  file2 #=> error

Can you tell me how you expected the app to respond?

> Exception `CommandLine::Application::ArgumentError' at  
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/CommandLine-0.6.0/lib/commandline/application.rb:87  
> - Too many arguments. Found 3 but expected 2.
>  Usage: testapp.rb
> ERROR: Too many arguments. Found 3 but expected 2.
>  Usage: testapp.rb


-- 
Jim Freeze