Really Cheap Command-Line Option Parsing in Ruby

Question

EDIT: Please, please, please read the two requirements listed at the bottom of this post before replying. People keep posting their new gems and li

Answer 1

If you want a simple command line parser for key/value commands without the use of gems:

But this only works if you always have key/value pairs.

# example
# script.rb -u username -p mypass

# check if there are even set of params given
if ARGV.count.odd? 
    puts 'invalid number of arguments'
    exit 1
end

# holds key/value pair of cl params {key1 => value1, key2 => valye2, ...}
opts = {} 

(ARGV.count/2).times do |i|
    k,v = ARGV.shift(2)
    opts[k] = v # create k/v pair
end

# set defaults if no params are given
opts['-u'] ||= 'root'

# example use of opts
puts "username:#{opts['-u']} password:#{opts['-p']}"

If you don't' need any checking you could just use:

opts = {} 

(ARGV.count/2).times do |i|
    k,v = ARGV.shift(2)
    opts[k] = v # create k/v pair
end