Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby 2

Moving On

Starting with our guiding principles of making common tasks easy, making uncommon tasks possible, and avoiding destructive behavior, we’ve discovered several guidelines to help us design our apps for an awesome user experience. They’re summarized in the following list. Overall, you want to have an opinion about how your app is supposed to work and reflect that opinion in the names and defaults you choose and how your app behaves.

Use short-form option names only for common and nondestructive options.

Short-form options are easy to use and should affect only common behaviors; this reinforces the desired usage patterns of your app. Options available only in long form indicate to the user that they are uncommon or dangerous.

Short-form ...