Namespacing thor commands in a standalone ruby executable

Question

When calling thor commands on the command line, the methods are namespaced by their module/class structure, e.g.

class App < Thor
  desc \'hello\', \'prints h         


        

Answer 1

This is one way with App as the default namespace (quite hacky though):

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "rubygems"
require "thor"

class Say < Thor
  # ./app say:hello
  desc 'hello', 'prints hello'
  def hello
    puts 'hello'
  end
end

class App < Thor
  # ./app nothing
  desc 'nothing', 'does nothing'
  def nothing
    puts 'doing nothing'
  end
end

begin
  parts = ARGV[0].split(':')
  namespace = Kernel.const_get(parts[0].capitalize)
  parts.shift
  ARGV[0] = parts.join
  namespace.start
rescue
  App.start
end

Or, also not ideal:

define_method 'say:hello'