Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby 2

Moving On

We’ve learned two things in this chapter, both to help make our code easier to navigate, easier to understand, easier to enhance, and easier to work with. By putting code into the right place in our project, we can keep things organized and comprehensible. By applying design patterns to the structure of our code, we make it clear to ourselves and other developers how the application works. We’ve set ourselves up to quickly fix bugs and easily add new features.

You’re in the home stretch now and have learned everything you need to make awesome command-line applications. You’ve learned all the rules, so now it’s time to break some of them. Thus far, we’ve stuck to the “UNIX Way” of machine-parseable output and no interactive input. ...