From: "Eric J. Roode" <sdn.girths00869@...>
Date: 2005-12-28T08:37:53+09:00
Subject: Command-line option parsing

Greetings,

    I'm new to ruby (from Perl).  I notice there are several command-line 
options parsing modules.  The two that stuck out were GetoptLong and 
OptionsParser.  GetoptLong suffers from being "the same old Getopt".  
OptionsParser claims to be "more advanced and more ruby-like", but has 
extremely poor documentation.

    Are these the best two modules out there?  Is there an emerging 
"standard" module? (In Perl, Getopt::Long is by far the most commonly-used 
module).

(I apologize if this is a FAQ; I read the FAQ and did a google scan of past 
articles.  Most of what I found was authors announcing their own options-
parsing modules).

Thanks in advance,

-- 
Eric Roode