thor

v1.5.0RubyGems· Ruby

Thor is a toolkit for building powerful command-line interfaces.

The verdict

Solid choice. Well-adopted and active, actively maintained.

Live from the RubyGems registry · derived rules, not AI

How it scores

MaintenanceHealthy

PopularityWidely used

SecurityClean

LicensePermissive

DepsZero deps

Maintenance

Last published 5 months ago.

Popularity

1.6M downloads / week

Security

No known advisories for this version (OSV).

License

MIT

Dependencies

No runtime dependencies

Same concept · CLI argument parsing

For building command-line tools with parsed flags.

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