From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-03-25T01:16:26+09:00
Subject: Re: optparse and required options

Hi,

At Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:54:28 +0900,
Jim Menard wrote in [ruby-talk:95739]:
> This forces the '--email' option to take an argument. What I want to do is
> force the user to supply an '--email EMAIL' option.

optparse itself doesn't supply options semantics.

> Do I have to append
> 
>     usage() if email.nil?
> 
> and if so, how do I get the optarg obejct's help message?

You have to write mandatory and/or exclusive condtions by
yourself.

  email or abort ARGV.options.to_s

-- 
Nobu Nakada