From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2009-01-13T00:22:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Commonly agreed command line options gem?

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:35 PM, LAMBEAU Bernard <blambeau@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> - Is there a commonly agreed gem for parsing command line options of a
> script (ARGV) ?
> - If no, does anyone know a good one ?
>
> In all cases (as I'm relatively new to Ruby), what heuristic do you
> use to select the gems you need? There actually a lot of gems
> available and selecting the good one (still maintained, well tested,
> famous ruby developers maybe (?), ...) is pretty hard to me.
>

OptionParser is in ruby core:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/OptionParser.html

I am very happy with Ara Howard's "main" gem, though.
It's very easy to use.

Jesus.