i think it was jim freeze that realased a gem for quickly building
commandline
applications, does anyone remember where it’s gone too? i only found a
dead
project on rubyforge…
thanks.
-a
[email protected] wrote:
i think it was jim freeze that realased a gem for quickly building
commandline
applications, does anyone remember where it’s gone too? i only found a
dead
project on rubyforge…thanks.
-a
This seems to have a downloadable gem:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/optionparser/
I’ve got that gem installed and the docs suggest that it includes the
commandline app framework, but I haven’t used it. The file
commandline/application.rb is included, so that looks promising.
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007, [email protected] wrote:
i think it was jim freeze that realased a gem for quickly building
commandline applications, does anyone remember where it’s gone too? i
only found a dead project on rubyforge…
You’re not thinking of highline, are you?
http://highline.rubyforge.org/
I also know that I mentioned recently that I was working on one, but
it’s not released yet, sadly.
Ben
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
-a
This seems to have a downloadable gem:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/optionparser/
I’ve got that gem installed and the docs suggest that it includes the
commandline app framework, but I haven’t used it. The file
commandline/application.rb is included, so that looks promising.
thanks a bunch joel - that’s great!
so - have rolled your own framework just like the rest of us? 
-a
[email protected] wrote:
thanks.
thanks a bunch joel - that’s great!
so - have rolled your own framework just like the rest of us?
Nah, not me. I’d consider using this or highline (do they even solve the
same problem?).
Do you have plans to do a comparison and post the results?
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
so - have rolled your own framework just like the rest of us?
Nah, not me. I’d consider using this or highline (do they even solve the
same problem?).
no. but commandline looks very nice. it didn’t exist when i wrote mine
(part
of alib) or i would have used it.
Do you have plans to do a comparison and post the results?
i’m doing a small one for a class as we speak. perhaps it’ll motivate
me to
doccument mine!
cheers.
-a
On 6 mar, 02:12, Joel VanderWerf [email protected] wrote:
commandline/application.rb is included, so that looks promising.
thanks a bunch joel - that’s great!
so - have rolled your own framework just like the rest of us?
Nah, not me. I’d consider using this or highline (do they even solve the
same problem?).
They don’t. Highline is something unique. It allows the easy
creation of command-line applications that ask you questions on a
local machine, like Eliza.
Commandline, on the other hand, is mainly a replacement/alternative to
getopt or optparse. For that, there’s also my port of Perl’s
Getopt::Declare: http://getoptdeclare.rubyforge.org/ – Declare.rdoc
for documentation.
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Ben B. wrote:
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007, [email protected] wrote:
i think it was jim freeze that realased a gem for quickly building
commandline applications, does anyone remember where it’s gone too? i
only found a dead project on rubyforge…You’re not thinking of highline, are you?
nope, but thanks for reminding me of that! perfect for this talk…
I also know that I mentioned recently that I was working on one, but it’s
not released yet, sadly.
heh. i’ve got one too. sigh.
-a
[email protected] schrieb:
quickly building commandline applications
http://trollop.rubyforge.org/
I like it. 
regards
Jan
CommandLine is alive and well.
I have even seen where someone combined it with Highline
to have a batch driven and an interactive CUI.
gem install -r commandline -y
should get you commandline (0.7.10).