From: Delaney Parker <delaneyparker@...>
Date: 2007-12-01T09:10:04+09:00
Subject: [ANN] GetOptions 0.1 released


GetOptions - Yet another command line argument parser for Ruby. Inspired 
by Perl's Getopt::Long module, the GetOptions module provides a fairly 
powerful POSIX-ish option parser that is very easy to learn and use.


   http://rubyforge.org/projects/getoptions/


A quick and dirty example...
-- 
   $ cat example.rb
   require 'getoptions'

   opt = GetOptions.new(%w(help debug! verbose+ prefix:s size=i host=@s))
   p opt

--
   $ ./example.rb --help
   :help: true

   $ ./example.rb --debug
   :debug: true

   $ ./example.rb --no-debug
   :debug: false

   $ ./example.rb -vvvvv
   :verbose: 5

   $ ./example.rb -vv --verbose
   :verbose: 3

   $ ./example.rb --pre
   :prefix: nil

   $ ./example.rb --pre myprefix
   :prefix: "myprefix"

   $ ./example.rb --size 5
   :size: 5

   $ ./example.rb --host foo bar baz
   :host: ["foo", "bar", "baz"]


Give it a whirl and let me know what you think.

Enjoy,
   Delaney