From: Michael Keller <developer@...>
Date: 2006-05-31T00:52:49+09:00
Subject: optparse "invalid option" problem

Hi,

'optparse' seems to continue parsing even after the first invalid  
argument.

example.rb:

require 'optparse'

ARGV.options do |opts|
   opts.separator  "Required:"
   opts.on("-f", "--ffmpeg PATH", String, "ffmpeg's path") { |val|  
ffmpeg = val }
end

leftOver = ARGV.parse!
p leftOver



 > example.rb -f ./ffmpeg Tool/to/call/from/example.rb

works as expected (leftOver contains "Tool/to/call/from/example.rb"),  
but


 > example.rb -f ./ffmpeg Tool/to/call/from/example.rb --toolsOption  
value

raises "invalid option: --toolsOption"

instead of pushing "Tool/to/call/from/example.rb", "--toolsOption"  
and "value" into leftOver



Is there a way to tell optparse that everything after the first  
unknown argument is ignored and pushed into the resulting array?

Thanks!

   Michael