What Ruby libraries should I use for building a console-based application?

Question

I want to build a console-based application with Ruby. I quick googled and found all of these below libraries. Please someone suggest me which one should I use. Thank you.

• OptionParser (http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/optparse/rdoc/OptionParser.html)
• Thor (https://github.com/wycats/thor)
• Rubikon (http://koraktor.de/rubikon/)
• Trollop (http://trollop.rubyforge.org/)
• Clamp (https://github.com/mdub/clamp)
• Choice (http://choice.rubyforge.org/)
• Methadone (https://github.com/davetron5000/methadone)
• GLI (https://github.com/davetron5000/gli)
• Commander (http://rdoc.info/github/visionmedia/commander/master/frames)
• Main (https://github.com/ahoward/main)
• CLAP (https://github.com/soveran/clap)
• Optiflag (http://optiflag.rubyforge.org/)
• Hirb (http://tagaholic.me/hirb/)
• Boson (http://tagaholic.me/2009/10/14/boson-command-your-ruby-universe.html)

Answer 1

Ruby Toolbox is a website for comparing different gems. You may want to use it to evaluate which gems are reasonably popular.

You may find Really Cheap Command-Line Option Parsing in Ruby useful as well.