module Optimist

Constants

FLOAT_RE: Regex for floating point numbers
PARAM_RE: Regex for parameters
VERSION

Public Class Methods

die(arg, msg = nil, error_code = nil) click to toggle source

Informs the user that their usage of 'arg' was wrong, as detailed by 'msg', and dies. Example:

options do
  opt :volume, :default => 0.0
end

die :volume, "too loud" if opts[:volume] > 10.0
die :volume, "too soft" if opts[:volume] < 0.1

In the one-argument case, simply print that message, a notice about -h, and die. Example:

options do
  opt :whatever # ...
end

Optimist::die "need at least one filename" if ARGV.empty?

An exit code can be provide if needed

Optimist::die "need at least one filename", -2 if ARGV.empty?

# File lib/optimist.rb, line 1246
def die(arg, msg = nil, error_code = nil)
  if @last_parser
    @last_parser.die arg, msg, error_code
  else
    raise ArgumentError, "Optimist::die can only be called after Optimist::options"
  end
end

educate() click to toggle source

Displays the help message and dies. Example:

options do
  opt :volume, :default => 0.0
  banner <<-EOS
Usage:
       #$0 [options] <name>
where [options] are:
EOS
end

Optimist::educate if ARGV.empty?

# File lib/optimist.rb, line 1266
def educate
  if @last_parser
    @last_parser.educate
    exit
  else
    raise ArgumentError, "Optimist::educate can only be called after Optimist::options"
  end
end

options(args = ARGV, *a, &b) click to toggle source

The easy, syntactic-sugary entry method into Optimist. Creates a Parser, passes the block to it, then parses args with it, handling any errors or requests for help or version information appropriately (and then exiting). Modifies args in place. Returns a hash of option values.

The block passed in should contain zero or more calls to opt (Parser#opt), zero or more calls to text (Parser#text), and probably a call to version (Parser#version).

The returned block contains a value for every option specified with opt. The value will be the value given on the commandline, or the default value if the option was not specified on the commandline. For every option specified on the commandline, a key “<option name>_given” will also be set in the hash.

Example:

require 'optimist'
opts = Optimist::options do
  opt :monkey, "Use monkey mode"                    # a flag --monkey, defaulting to false
  opt :name, "Monkey name", :type => :string        # a string --name <s>, defaulting to nil
  opt :num_limbs, "Number of limbs", :default => 4  # an integer --num-limbs <i>, defaulting to 4
end

## if called with no arguments
p opts # => {:monkey=>false, :name=>nil, :num_limbs=>4, :help=>false}

## if called with --monkey
p opts # => {:monkey=>true, :name=>nil, :num_limbs=>4, :help=>false, :monkey_given=>true}

Settings:

 Optimist::options and Optimist::Parser.new accept +settings+ to control how
 options are interpreted.  These settings are given as hash arguments, e.g:

 opts = Optimist::options(ARGV, exact_match: false) do
   opt :foobar, 'messed up'
   opt :forget, 'forget it'
 end

+settings+ include:
* :exact_match  : (default=true) Allow minimum unambigous number of characters to match a long option
* :suggestions  : (default=true) Enables suggestions when unknown arguments are given and DidYouMean is installed.  DidYouMean comes standard with Ruby 2.3+
* :implicit_short_opts : (default=true) Short options will only be created where explicitly defined.  If you do not like short-options, this will prevent having to define :short=> :none for all of your options.
Because Optimist::options uses a default argument for +args+, you must pass that argument when using the settings feature.

See more examples at www.manageiq.org/optimist

# File lib/optimist.rb, line 1182
def options(args = ARGV, *a, &b)
  @last_parser = Parser.new(*a, &b)
  with_standard_exception_handling(@last_parser) { @last_parser.parse args }
end

with_standard_exception_handling(parser) { || ... } click to toggle source

If Optimist::options doesn't do quite what you want, you can create a Parser object and call Parser#parse on it. That method will throw CommandlineError, HelpNeeded and VersionNeeded exceptions when necessary; if you want to have these handled for you in the standard manner (e.g. show the help and then exit upon an HelpNeeded exception), call your code from within a block passed to this method.

Note that this method will call System#exit after handling an exception!

Usage example:

require 'optimist'
p = Optimist::Parser.new do
  opt :monkey, "Use monkey mode"                     # a flag --monkey, defaulting to false
  opt :goat, "Use goat mode", :default => true       # a flag --goat, defaulting to true
end

opts = Optimist::with_standard_exception_handling p do
  o = p.parse ARGV
  raise Optimist::HelpNeeded if ARGV.empty? # show help screen
  o
end

Requires passing in the parser object.

# File lib/optimist.rb, line 1212
def with_standard_exception_handling(parser)
  yield
rescue CommandlineError => e
  parser.die(e.message, nil, e.error_code)
rescue HelpNeeded
  parser.educate
  exit
rescue VersionNeeded
  puts parser.version
  exit
end

Private Instance Methods