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davetron5000
gli
Ruby2017–2023
davetron5000 / gli

gli

Make awesome command-line applications the easy way

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.3KGitHub stars
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Make awesome command-line applications the easy way

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Observed mentions: 2017-01-29 16:23:49 UTC to 2023-01-09 23:45:46 UTC.

012017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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I use https://github.com/davetron5000/gli for this, since I work in ruby. Adding something like just or gli to your project is a huge win. Every dev can just `just update_db` to refresh their dev db, `just update_secrets` to update dev secrets. Whatever. So much better than putting snippets in a wiki or whatever. I like gli because it gives you subcommands, like `gli database refresh` etc.
In Just: A Command Runner
The choice of not writing options parser was very deliberate. As much as it is a tempting proposition I believe there are already great tools around. TTY attempts to provide glue to stitch a lot of scripting needs together without opinionated view on how they should be structured - for now at least ;-) In my scripting experience I tend to gravitate towards two solutions. If my script is fairly small, e.i. in a single file, with no much complexity I tend to use Ruby standard library optparse. However, if my needs get a bit more complex and I need, for example, subcommands I use thor. Thor gives me a better way to structure my application logic. These two solutions so far have covered all my needs. Other solutions that I've played in the past are: * main - very sweet DSL (https://github.com/ahoward/main) * clamp - (https://github.com/mdub/c
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lamp) * slop - (https://github.com/leejarvis/slop) * gli - for Git-like interfaces (https://github.com/davetron5000/gli) My recommendation before using other libraries would be to really give optparse a good spin so that you can figure out why the other options are more suitable.
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