Option parser ruby example

optparse.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'optparse'

options = {}
OptionParser.new do |opts|
  opts.banner = "Usage: example.rb [options]"

  #string as argument
  opts.on("-u", "--url [URL]", String, "Remote url") do |url|
    options[:url] = url
  end

  #Boolean as argument
  opts.on("-v", "--[no-]verbose", "Run verbosely") do |verbose|
    options[:verbose] = verbose
  end


  opts.on("-h", "--help", "Show this help") do |v|
    puts opts
  end

end.parse!

p options
p ARGV