From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-02-20T10:13:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby scripts for daily unix system administration

On Thursday, February 20, 2003, 10:58:05 AM, Jim wrote:

> On Thursday, 20 February 2003 at  8:02:27 +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
>> 
>> On Wednesday, Feb 19, 2003, at 15:11 US/Central, Jim Freeze wrote:
>> 
>> > Below is a boilerplate that I use for my apps:
>> >
>> Jim:
>> 
>> Seems like you could put a boatload of this functionality into a common 
>> base class that all your apps could share.
 
> Yes, I have thought about that numerous times, but have
> not come up with an implementation I like yet.
> Do you have some suggestions?


Probably a BoilerPlate module that contained #version, parts of
#initialize, and #get_options.

The target class would provide VERSION, REVISION_DATE and AUTHOR,
#usage, and an #options method that #get_options can call (returns an
array for GetoptLong to use).

Anyway, I've put your code on the wiki at BoilerPlate.  I'm sure many
will find it useful.

Gavin