From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-12-28T22:37:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Command-line option parsing

Eric J. Roode <sdn.girths00869@zoemail.net> 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 used to use GetopLong in the beginning but switched to OptionParser. 
Agreee, the documentation could be better but if you look carefully at the 
example given in RDoc you get pretty much everything you need.  I'm not sure 
about a standard parser but my impression was that OptionParser is more 
widely used.  But I may be wrong here.

Kind regards

    robert