README.txt

trollop

by William Morgan (wmorgan-trollop at the masanjin dot nets or cs.stanford.edu/~ruby)

Main page: trollop.rubyforge.org

Release announcements and comments: all-thing.net/search/label/trollop

Documentation quickstart: See Trollop::options and Trollop::Parser#opt.

DESCRIPTION

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, command subcompletion, and sensible defaults for everything you don’t specify.

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.

INSTALL

• gem install trollop

LICENSE

Copyright © 2008 William Morgan. Trollop is distributed under the same terms as Ruby.