From: Nathaniel Talbott <ntalbott@...>
Date: 2006-12-10T05:27:20+09:00
Subject: [ANN] CoolOptions 1.0.3 has been released

CoolOptions version 1.0.3 has been released!

  http://cooloptions.rubyforge.org/

CoolOptions is a simple wrapper around optparse that provides less
configuration and more convenience for doing command-line option
handling.

As a huge fan of optparse due to its flexibility, self-documenting
nature, and ease of use, I nevertheless found myself doing almost the
exact same thing with it over and over again, and decided to write a
thin wrapper around it to handle the common cases. Thus CoolOptions
was born. An example of using it:

  $ cat new_rails_project
  require 'cooloptions'

  options = CoolOptions.parse!("[options] PROJECTNAME") do |o|
    o.on "repository URL",         "Remote subversion repository."
    o.on "svk",                    "Use svk.",                              true
    o.on "project-path PATH",      "Root of project workspaces.",
     File.expand_path("~/svk")
    o.on "l)repository-path PATH", "Remote repository path.",               "/"
    o.on "mirror-path SVKPATH",    "SVK mirror path.",                      "//"
    o.on "local-pa(t)h SVKPATH",   "SVK local path.",
     "//local"
    o.on "create-structure",       "Create trunk/tags/branches structure.", true
    o.on "finish",                 "Prep and commit the new project.",      true

    o.after do |r|
      r.project_path = File.expand_path(r.project_path)
      o.error("Invalid path.") unless File.exist?(r.project_path)
      r.project_name = ARGV.shift
      o.error("Project name is required.") unless r.project_name
      o.error("Project name is too funky.") unless /^\w+$/ =~ r.project_name
    end
  end

  p options.svk
  p options.project_path
  p options.repository
  p options.create_structure
  p options.project_name

  $ ./new_rails_project --no-svk -r
http://terralien.com/svn/terralien/ myproject
  false
  "/Users/ntalbott/svk"
  "http://terralien.com/svn/terralien/"
  true
  "myproject"

More details can be found in the documentation, available at the URL above.

Feedback is welcome, and I hope you find CoolOptions useful and
enjoyable to use!


-- 
Nathaniel Talbott
http://terralien.com