Module: Slop

Defined in:
lib/slop.rb,
lib/slop/error.rb,
lib/slop/types.rb,
lib/slop/option.rb,
lib/slop/parser.rb,
lib/slop/result.rb,
lib/slop/options.rb

Defined Under Namespace

Classes: ArrayOption, BoolOption, Error, FloatOption, IntegerOption, InvalidOptionValue, MissingArgument, MissingRequiredOption, NotImplementedError, NullOption, Option, Options, Parser, RegexpOption, Result, StringOption, SymbolOption, UnknownOption

Constant Summary collapse

VERSION = 
'4.10.1'
BooleanOption = 
BoolOption
IntOption = 
IntegerOption

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.option_defined?(name) ⇒ Boolean

Example:

Slop.option_defined?(:string) #=> true
Slop.option_defined?(:omg)    #=> false

Returns true if an option is defined.

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/slop.rb', line 32

def self.option_defined?(name)
  const_defined?(string_to_option(name.to_s))
rescue NameError
  # If a NameError is raised, it wasn't a valid constant name,
  # and thus couldn't have been defined.
  false
end

.parse(items = ARGV, **config, &block) ⇒ Object

Parse an array of options (defaults to ARGV). Accepts an optional hash of configuration options and block.

Example:

opts = Slop.parse(["-host", "localhost"]) do |o|
  o.string '-host', 'a hostname', default: '0.0.0.0'
end
opts.to_hash #=> { host: 'localhost' }

Returns a Slop::Result.



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# File 'lib/slop.rb', line 22

def self.parse(items = ARGV, **config, &block)
  Options.new(**config, &block).parse(items)
end

.string_to_option(s) ⇒ Object

Example:

Slop.string_to_option("string")     #=> "StringOption"
Slop.string_to_option("some_thing") #=> "SomeThingOption"

Returns a camel-cased class looking string with Option suffix.



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# File 'lib/slop.rb', line 46

def self.string_to_option(s)
  s.gsub(/(?:^|_)([a-z])/) { $1.capitalize } + "Option"
end

.string_to_option_class(s) ⇒ Object

Example:

Slop.string_to_option_class("string") #=> Slop::StringOption
Slop.string_to_option_class("foo")    #=> uninitialized constant FooOption

Returns the full qualified option class. Uses ‘#string_to_option`.



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# File 'lib/slop.rb', line 56

def self.string_to_option_class(s)
  const_get(string_to_option(s))
end