From: Lou Vanek <vanek@...>
Date: 2005-12-28T09:09:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Command-line option parsing

i like CommandLine::OptionParser
(http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/632/170/index.html)
because it's documentation is better than average as well
as its features.
it doesn't appear to be the ruby standard, however, but for
in-house projects there's a lot to like.


Eric J. Roode wrote:

> 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,
>