rubygem-main

Class Factory and Dsl for Generating Command Line Programs

main.rb features the following: - unification of option, argument, keyword, and environment parameter parsing - auto generation of usage and help messages - support for mode/sub-commands - io redirection support - logging hooks using ruby's built-in logging mechanism - intelligent error handling and exit codes - use as dsl or library for building Main objects - parsing user defined ARGV and ENV - zero requirements for understanding the obtuse apis of any command line option parsers - leather pants In short main.rb aims to drastically lower the barrier to writing uniform command line applications.