Tag: gems
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Psych 4.0 is broken
That’s what I hear, anyway, that Psych 4.0 quit working. The toolchain I’ve constructed to publish my podcast quit working after a recent upgrade I’ve been trying to get it working. Unfortunately, while I’ve been using ruby since 2001, I’ve never had to figure out how rubygems work. I program for a hobby. It’s not…
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Useful gems, 2020 edition
Since the gem ecosystem keeps changing, and since I don’t write new programs very often, here’s a list of my favorite gems for developing command-line interface tools. Option parsing gem: slop. (Since micro-optparse looks moribund; see here.) But (looking at programs I’ve written) I also seem to like trollop, a/k/a optimist. But I also like…