[LRUG] Gems that do command line tools like they're Rack apps

[gareth rushgrove]

On 31 October 2011 22:14, Adam Carlile <adam at benchmedia.co.uk> wrote:
> Mailcatcher might be worth looking at,
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> It fires up a daemonized SMTP and HTTP server through a CLI
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> https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher
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Cheers.

https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher/blob/master/bin/catchmail

A couple of nice bits to the above config, mainly in syntax shortening
tricks. But it doesn't combine command line flags (which I think most
Ruby apps do OK with) and reading from a configuration file (which I
see too little). I'm a fan of being able to configure things by
dumping files in /etc/ as well. And it's the "as well" part that I'm
particularly interested in finding a nice pattern for.

G

> It's also great for testing email heavy web apps!
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> Cheers
> Adam
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> On 31/10/2011 22:09, "gareth rushgrove" <gareth.rushgrove at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>I'm on the lookout for gems which provide command line tools which
>>start a daemonized Rack application.
>>
>>I have a few gems in the works that operate like that and I'm sure
>>their are better patterns for lots of the command line options and
>>config file parsing malarkey I'm doing at present.
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>>Any pointers much appreciated.
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>>G
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