Thor extension

Matt Brictson had the same complaints I did about Thor. Well, he went and fixed them all, I put them into a gem and now use it in many of my Thor CLIs.

Original source

https://github.com/mattbrictson/gem/blob/main/lib/example/thor_ext.rb

What it does

Overwrites a few Thor methods so that it behaves more like a typical CLI:

• Accepts -h or --help to show help
• Treats unrecognized options as errors instead of ignoring them
• Prints error to stderr in red with no stacktrace
• Prints full stacktrace when setting VERBOSE environment variable
• Exists with a non-zero status on error

Installation

gem i thor-ext

gem 'thor-ext'

Usage

In your Thor CLI:

class SuperAwesomeCli < Thor
  extend ThorExt::Start
end