I want to build a console-based application with Ruby. I quick googled and found all of these below libraries. Please someone suggest me which one should I use. Thank you.
- OptionParser (http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/optparse/rdoc/OptionParser.html)
- Thor (https://github.com/wycats/thor)
- Rubikon (http://koraktor.de/rubikon/)
- Trollop (http://trollop.rubyforge.org/)
- Clamp (https://github.com/mdub/clamp)
- Choice (http://choice.rubyforge.org/)
- Methadone (https://github.com/davetron5000/methadone)
- GLI (https://github.com/davetron5000/gli)
- Commander (http://rdoc.info/github/visionmedia/commander/master/frames)
- Main (https://github.com/ahoward/main)
- CLAP (https://github.com/soveran/clap)
- Optiflag (http://optiflag.rubyforge.org/)
- Hirb (http://tagaholic.me/hirb/)
- Boson (http://tagaholic.me/2009/10/14/boson-command-your-ruby-universe.html)
Ruby Toolbox is a website for comparing different gems. You may want to use it to evaluate which gems are reasonably popular.
You may find Really Cheap Command-Line Option Parsing in Ruby useful as well.