Make Awesome Command-Line Apps with Ruby
David Copeland • Kansas City, MO • Talk

Date: November 04, 2011
Published: July 30, 2015
Announced: May 27, 2011

Make Awesome Command-Line Apps with Ruby by: David Copeland

Tired of maintaining your one-off script that has now become someone's job to execute? Wishing you could create polished applications on the command line similar to git or cucumber? In my talk, I'll talk about what makes a command line application "awesome", and why you should care. I'll talk about what makes Ruby particularly suited to this task over mainstays like bash and Perl. We'll compare and contrast several Ruby libraries that can make even your lowliest automation script a polished, maintainable, and predictable application.

Ruby Midwest 2011