Turn a module into an executable by just requiring boson?

[jeroenvandijk]

First, thanks for this great library.

I'm currently trying to make a simple command line utility of a simple ruby module ( see this gist http://gist.github.com/259360 )

I would like to just require boson and make it an executable. I think it shouldn't be a lot of work given what you already can do with boson. Maybe it is already possible?

Do you have suggestions?

Cheers, Jeroen

[cldwalker]

Repasting from private message for benefit of others:

Hi jeroenvandijk, I forked the gist and gave some examples of how to use it at the end: http://gist.github.com/259392

Since you're only calling one method, there's no need to use Boson's commands. I simply used its option parser. (Documentation on the option parser)[http://tagaholic.me/boson/doc/classes/Boson/OptionParser.html]. At some point I should move Boson's option parser into a separate gem. I consider it more efficient and powerful than trollop

[cldwalker]

Repasted in response to wanting the gist to handle multiple commands:

This should handle multiple commands while providing basic help and error handling: http://gist.github.com/265007 Notice that I had to modify Example to provide class-level methods (extend self) and that I had to define options and argument sizes when loading with Manager.load

[cldwalker]

Feel free to reopen if you're still having issues with this.

[hedgehog]

The issue I'm having with this is I see:

The following commands conflict with existing commands: features, specs. Attempting load into the namespace bdd...
Error: No method exists to redefine command 'features'.

With this example, which correctly prases the options given: https://gist.github.com/867668

If I remove the self, I don't see the error, but the options are not correctly parsed.

Options used are in that gist.