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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
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be kind whenever possible... it is always possible.
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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.

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vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007, 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:

> 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.

thanks a bunch joel - that's great!

so - have rolled your own framework just like the rest of us?

-a
--
be kind whenever possible... it is always possible.
- the dalai lama

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Ben Bleything wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007, 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/

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
--
be kind whenever possible... it is always possible.
- the dalai lama

wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> 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?

--
vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407

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
--
be kind whenever possible... it is always possible.
- the dalai lama

On 6 mar, 02:12, Joel VanderWerf <v...@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> ara.t.how...@noaa.gov wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
>
> >> ara.t.how...@noaa.gov 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.
>
> > 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:eclare: http://getoptdeclare.rubyforge.org/ -- Declare.rdoc
for documentation.

schrieb:
> quickly building commandline applications
http://trollop.rubyforge.org/

I like it.

regards
Jan