Using ruby's OptionParser to parse sub-commands

I'd like to be able to use ruby's OptionParser to parse sub-commands of the form

COMMAND [GLOBAL FLAGS] [SUB-COMMAND [SUB-C开发者_Go百科OMMAND FLAGS]]

like:

git branch -a
gem list foo

I know I could switch to a different option parser library (like Trollop), but I'm interested in learning how to do this from within OptionParser, since I'd like to learn the library better.

Any tips?

Figured it out. I need to use OptionParser#order!. It will parse all the options from the start of ARGV until it finds a non-option (that isn't an option argument), removing everything it processes from ARGV, and then it will quit.

So I just need to do something like:

global = OptionParser.new do |opts|
  # ...
end
subcommands = { 
  'foo' => OptionParser.new do |opts|
     # ...
   end,
   # ...
   'baz' => OptionParser.new do |opts|
     # ...
   end
 }

 global.order!
 subcommands[ARGV.shift].order!

It looks like the OptionParser syntax has changed some. I had to use the following so that the arguments array had all of the options not parsed by the opts object.

begin
  opts.order!(arguments)
rescue OptionParser::InvalidOption => io
  # Prepend the invalid option onto the arguments array
  arguments = io.recover(arguments)
rescue => e
  raise "Argument parsing failed: #{e.to_s()}"
end

There are also other gems you can look at such as main.

GLI is the way to go, https://github.com/davetron5000/gli. An excerpt from a tutorial:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'gli'
require 'hacer'

include GLI::App

program_desc 'A simple todo list'

flag [:t,:tasklist], :default_value => File.join(ENV['HOME'],'.todolist')

pre do |global_options,command,options,args|
  $todo_list = Hacer::Todolist.new(global_options[:tasklist])
end

command :add do |c|
  c.action do |global_options,options,args|
    $todo_list.create(args)
  end
end

command :list do |c|
  c.action do
    $todo_list.list.each do |todo|
      printf("%5d - %s\n",todo.todo_id,todo.text)
    end
  end
end

command :done do |c|
  c.action do |global_options,options,args|
    id = args.shift.to_i
    $todo_list.list.each do |todo|
      $todo_list.complete(todo) if todo.todo_id == id
    end
  end
end

exit run(ARGV)

You can find the tutorial at http://davetron5000.github.io/gli/.