Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby 2

Moving On

The example apps we saw in this chapter don’t have many aspects of an awesome command-line app. They’re downright awful, in fact, but we have to start somewhere, and these are simple enough and general enough that we can demonstrate everything we need to know about making an awesome command-line app by enhancing them.

In this chapter, we learned the absolute most important thing for a command-line app: have a clear, concise purpose that solves a problem we have. Next, we’ll learn how to make our app easier to use by implementing a more canonical command-line interface. As we work through the book, we’ll make refinement after refinement, starting our focus on the general users of our app, then focusing on power users, and then worrying ...