From: Rob Olson <rko618@...>
Date: 2009-09-27T16:50:11+09:00
Subject: Re: rdoc/usage replacement in ruby 1.9 for a CLI app?

On Sep 23, 9:41 am, Juan felipe Alvarez saldarriaga
<jfalva...@vesifront.org> wrote:
> Hey!
>
> I'm follow a tutorial (http://blog.infinitered.com/entries/show/5) to
> create a ruby app just for the command line, I'll like to know where's
> the replacement for rdoc/usage in 1.9 ? seems like is removed (I install
> ruby 1.9 using the ruby installer preview 2) or some other tool to
> display rdoc blocks in the CLI or maybe just another tutorial or how to
> :).
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hey Juan,

I was similarly puzzled today when I found out that rdoc/usage was
removed from Ruby 1.9. I ripped it out and swapped in Trollop (http://
trollop.rubyforge.org/) instead which worked out great. Trollop
appears to work just fine on Ruby 1.9 as I did not notice any issues.
I opted to copy trollop.rb over into my lib dir to avoid adding
trollop as a external dependency.

If you want to view how I used it, here is a link to the file on
Github http://github.com/robolson/simplesem/blob/master/bin/simplesem

Regards,

Rob Olson
http://thinkingdigitally.com