William - thanks. I can use this. Just my style. t. William Morgan wrote: > Dear Rubyists, > > I have released Trollop 1.15. This release is dedicated to my fellow wrinkled, > old-fashioned, out-moded throwbacks who still use the commandline instead of > clicking on their webapp. > > Trollop is a commandline option parser for Ruby that just gets out of your way. > One line of code per option is all you need to write. For that, you get a nice > automatically-generated help page, robust option parsing, subcommand support, > and sensible defaults for everything you don't specify. > > It's one file. If you don't want to gem install it, just copy the damn thing > into your lib/ directory and get off my lawn. > > Main page: http://trollop.rubyforge.org > Release announcements and comments: http://all-thing.net/label/trollop/ > > == FEATURES/PROBLEMS > > - Dirt-simple usage. > - Sensible defaults. No tweaking necessary, much tweaking possible. > - Support for long options, short options, short option bundling, and > automatic type validation and conversion. > - Support for subcommands. > - Automatic help message generation, wrapped to current screen width. > - Lots of unit tests. > > == REQUIREMENTS > > * A burning desire to write less code. > > == CHANGES in 1.15 > > * Don't raise an exception when out of short arguments (thanks to Rafael > Sevilla for pointing out how dumb this behavior was). > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tom Cloyd, MS MA, LMHC Private practice Psychotherapist Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A: (360) 920-1226 << tc / tomcloyd.com >> (email) << TomCloyd.com >> (website) << sleightmind.wordpress.com >> (mental health issues weblog) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~