From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2006-11-02T19:32:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Something more compact for getopt

On 11/2/06, Maciej Pilichowski <bantu@skasujtopoczta.fm> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   I use GetoptLong but I miss something much shorter in usage like
> GetoptLong in Perl. In Perl I could write
>
> GetOptions('re_from=s' => \$re_from, 're_to=s' => \$re_to, 'do' =>
> \$do_do,  'enum' => \$enum, 'from=i' => \$from, 'step=i' => \$step,
> 'width=i' => \$width);
>
>   So in one line -- or two -- I set the possible arguments, their
> types, assignment to variables and all the if-checking is done for me.
> No need to write loop to check all parameters like in Ruby.
>   Is any package available which do similar thing for Ruby?
>
> Thanks in advance, have a good day
> bye

try optparse [1], though not that concise, it's pretty nice and easy
to use. You can find pretty smart usage in [2]. look for # default
options

[1] http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/optparse/rdoc/index.html
[2] http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/projects/mongrel_service/bin/mongrel_service?revision=358&root=mongrel