From: "Derrick B." <lists@...>
Date: 2013-01-05T12:45:23+09:00
Subject: Re: require "test/unit"

Posted by tamouse mailing lists (Guest) on 2013-01-05 03:22
>
> There is a structure for building command-line applications that may
> be something you want to adopt.
>
> I'm going to point you to davetron1000's gems: methadone and GLI, both
> of which are builders for command-line apps (kind of like rails is for
> web apps). They provide some nifty things for making nice CLI apps,
> but possibly the tl;dr is that you implement the bare minimum in the
> part that does the part to take arguments from the command line, and
> then pass them to your classes/modules/etc, which are in separate
> files.
>

Posted by D. Deryl Downey (ddd) on 2013-01-05 03:25
> I would also recommend you get the book called Build Awesome
> Command-Line Applications in Ruby, by David Bryant Copeland. Excellent
> book!

Thanks!  This is all good information, but I feel I need to improve my
Ruby basics first before learning to use these frameworks.  I will
install them to at least take a peek, though.

I have been reading "The Ruby Programming Language", "Programming Ruby"
(1.8 edition), "Everyday Scripting with Ruby", and have "The Well
Grounded Rubyist" on the way.  I like the "Everyday..." book, because it
gets right into script creation through testing, which should be useful
for my Perl side, too.

Thanks again,

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