From: "R.. Kumar" Date: 2010-06-18T18:17:21+09:00 Subject: Re: State of the union for Ruby CLI libraries? John Feminella wrote: > > Does that sort of thing exist? I've noticed there are some apparently > more powerful alternatives like Thor, which is more of a full-stack > scripting framework, and I'm wondering what else might be useful to > take a look at. > > Any and all suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks! There's also visionmedia's commander http://github.com/visionmedia/commander. I've played with it a bit, but not started working on it. I've started converting some shell-scripts to ruby, and i've rolled my first one using optionparser. I may try commander for the second one. But I am afraid of a large code base, and it getting broken at some stage. For the ease of some option parsing and a few more tiny goodies, I can;t have my entire app dependent on some large code base. My current apps manipulate files largely using "sed", "grep", "cut" and some other unix commands. So the meat of my programs is still not served by these frameworks. I once tried Thor and liked it. But its written by Y Katz who is into Rails currently. So i don't know if it's being maintained (if you run into issues). I;ve been bitten earlier using a gem written by a high profile programmer who was too involved elsewhere to fix a bug in his gem or even reply. :-( -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.