Rake VS TTY

Some competitors - Rake (ruby) - Bake - Earthly - SCons - doit

where every argument except the name can either be missing, single (value) or multiple (array). Sure, it has the "advantage" that it's syntactically valid Ruby code, but it then requires some 70 lines of awful code to actually parse that data into a usable construct ([1] up to L145).

[1] https://github.com/ruby/rake/blob/7b50e9dc37abc57fd365c16cb1...

Rake[0] is still the best ‘make-like’ build tool I’ve used for general purpose stuff. The syntax is nice and it’s just Ruby which is a delight. I briefly used Mage (similar, but Go) and it was fine too.

[0]: https://github.com/ruby/rake

Yup! Two well-established alternatives are "rake", in the Ruby community, and "just" in the Rust community.

Rake is fully programmable in Ruby. Just is a bit less flexible, but it doesn't require learning Ruby, and it's quite pleasant to use.

https://ruby.github.io/rake/

Rake is a great way to homogenize and declare common behaviors of your script (called "tasks"); a guide.

In Ruby there's a gem named Rake. This gem provides a DSL to create tasks to be run from the command line. A small example looks like this:

I think you're referring to Rake. https://ruby.github.io/rake/

We use [Rake](https://github.com/ruby/rake) instead - it's awesome.

If you've been working with Ruby on Rails for a while, you've come across Rake. Written by the late Jim Weirich, Rake is to Ruby what Make is to C. It's very easy to create custom Rake tasks to simplify your development workflows. Rails even provides a generator (rails g task) to create them for you.

Few days ago I've created a script for the project I'm working on. It was an ugly script with hardcoded values, but it did ther job - create tokens on request. But I've decided to improve it a bit, because sometimes I needed to change params and I've added ability to submit params from the command line. Of course, there are a lot of awesome libraries such as dry-cli, TTY Toolkit or cli-kit from Shopify, but in most cases you can use standard ruby libraries like OptionParser or GetoptLong. Lets see how you can create a CLI utils with those libraries just in few minutes.

Not curses but something Ruby style: https://ttytoolkit.org/. No C dependencies, I think...

TTY-ruby is an extensive CLI toolkit that might help you do what you want. Have a look. I’ve used some of them successfully in the past.

TUI? Terminal UI? If so, check out https://ttytoolkit.org/ and https://github.com/Shopify/cli-ui

Saw just now. Cobra is huge and offers a lot. Btw, I've used this https://github.com/piotrmurach/tty for a Ruby project a while ago and was looking for something similar. I guess Cobra it is. Thanks again!

If you're interested in taking things further, maybe have a look at Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby 2. If you're not ready to buy a book, check out the Ruby TTY Toolkit page.

The tty suite of tools are a good shout, although I've never used them in anger. https://ttytoolkit.org

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