How to parse rake arguments with OptionParser

Question

Reffering that answer I was trying to use OptionParser to parse rake arguments. I simplified example from there and I had to add two ARGV.shi

Answer 1

You can use the method OptionParser#order! which returns ARGV without the wrong arguments:

options = {}

o = OptionParser.new

o.banner = "Usage: rake user:create [options]"
o.on("-u NAME", "--user NAME") { |username|
  options[:user] = username
}
args = o.order!(ARGV) {}
o.parse!(args)
puts "user: #{options[:user]}"

You can pass args like that: $ rake foo:bar -- '--user=john'