3.4.7 (2013-11-14)

• Ensure trash is cleared on every parse so you can parse multiple times with the same instance (#130)

3.4.5 (2013-05-14)

• Allow specifying long options starting with numbers (#110, Peter Zotov)
• Ensure short-options still consume trailing arguments, ie -abc foo should assign foo to the option c if it expects an argument (#114).

3.4.4 (2013-03-12)

• Disable the run callback when the help option is used and -h or --help is passed. #106
• Ensure default --help option exits by default (#107, Autumn Perrault).

3.4.3 (2013-01-14)

• Ensure parse! removes commands and their options.

3.4.2 (2013-01-14)

• Expose the Hash commands as public API.
• Deprecated Slop.optspec.
• Ensure help output prints to stdout, not stderr.

3.4.1 (2013-01-13)

• Ensure options replace any existing duplicates
• Command config options now inherit config options from top level Slop.
• Command help output now adds command in usage string.

3.4.0 (2013-01-12)

• Implement new command system (#95)
• Deprecate Slop::Commands
• Ensure 'no-foo' options are not inverted when parsing '--no-foo' (#86)
• Code refactoring and simplification (Kenichi Kamiya, #84, #85)

3.3.3 (2012-08-29)

• Ensure autocreate arguments are not created as options (#77)
• Ensure options are not swallowed when using short options with argument included (#74)

3.3.2 (2012-06-26)

• Ensure multiple options are not executed unless they exist (#70)

3.3.1 (2012-05-31)

• Stop multiple switches from trashing arguments (Conrad Irwin, #66)

3.3.0 (2012-05-30)

• Fix :as => :count when using multiple switches.
• Ensure range typecast allows negative range values.
• Ignore nil objects send to #parse instead of choking.

3.2.0 (2012-05-15)

• Ensure boolean options appear correctly in to_hash output. (#59)

3.1.1 (2012-04-24)

• Ensure separators before any options are still being processed (#62)

3.1.0 (2012-04-23)

• Allow options to be fetched via underscores instead of dashes (as a fallback) (Eric Anderson, #51)
• Added Slop#strict? method.
• Added strict checks for Integer/Float type casting. (Amon Sha)
• Ensure separators are not replacing existing separators (#61)

3.0.4 (2012-01-31)

• Ensure option=argument syntax does not consume following arguments (#55).

3.0.3 (2012-01-30)

• Ensure options passed after option terminator do not raise an exception (#54, Amon Sha)

3.0.2 (2012-01-27)

• Ensure --option=value is being evaluated before multiple switches (#52)

3.0.1 (2012-01-27)

• Ensure tests run green on 1.8.7
• Ensure :argument => :optional works with :option= format.
• Ruby 1.8.7 compat fix (dont chain Enumerable methods!) (Eric Anderson)

3.0.0 (2012-01-24)

• value_to_range returns an x..x range if the value looks like an integer.
• Lots of code refactoring
• Use TomDoc documentation
• Added Slop::Commands and removed existing command system
• Configuration options altered:
  • :optional has been renamed to :optional_argument
  • Added :required for mandatory options
  • :argument now accepts an :optional symbol as well as boolean value
• Removed Slop instance methods:
  • description=, description
  • summary=, summary
  • command
  • on_empty
  • on_noopts
  • execute
  • to_struct
• Added Slop instance methods:
  • separator
  • fetch_option
  • add_callback

2.4.3 (2012-01-16)

• Allow the :as option to accept an object responding to :call for custom type conversions (#45)
• Ensure negative integers are not parsed as possible options (#46)

2.4.2 (2011-12-18)

• Fix checking of required options (Dominik Honnef)

2.4.1 (2011-12-08)

• Ensure optional arguments are returned correctly

2.4.0 (2011-11-26)

• Avoid define_method for checking an options presence (and caching it) #37
• Ensure the short option allows an appended = for accepting arguments
• Implement respond_to?

2.3.1 (2011-11-11)

• Return nil for any options using casting which don't expect arguments (#33)
• Fix parenthesis warning on 1.8.7 (@shevegen)
• Ensure long argument is a string before attempting to use #[] method on it

2.3.0 (2011-11-04)

• Allow flags to have suffixed = char for options which accept an argument

2.2.0 (2011-11-02)

• Support bup.options style optspec parsing

  • http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201111

• Allow :as to accept a count value (Conrad Irwin):

  on :v, :verbose, :as => :count # -vv; opts[:verbose] #=> 2

2.1.0 (2011-08-03)

• Added Slop#missing for returning a list of missing options parsed
• Allow Slop#present? to accept multiple arguments
• Added :all_accept_arguments to Slop configuration options, this saves having to specify that every option takes an argument
• Added Slop#to_struct for building new classes from options

2.0.0 (2011-07-07)

• Deprecations:
  • Removed Slop::Options#to_hash continue using Slop#to_hash directly. This method also now returns symbols by default instead of strings. If you want strings use opts.to_hash(false)
  • :multiple_switches is now enabled by default, to parse fbar as the option f with value bar you must disable :multiple_switches
  • Removed Slop::Options#to_help and merged its contents into Slop#help
  • Removed lib/slop/options.rb and merged Slop::Options into slop.rb
  • Removed lib/slop/option.rb and merged Slop::Option into slop.rb
  • These changes make Slop much easier to vendor in libraries
• Slop::Option now inherits from Struct.new
• Added Slop::Error subclassing from StandardError which all exception classes should inherit from
• Added Slop::MissingOptionError and :required option to Slop::Option. This exception is raised when a mandatory option is not used

1.9.1 (2011-06-16)

• Ensure optional items with no arguments still return true when searching for presence

1.9.0 (2011-06-15)

• Add command completion and support for an error message when ambiguous commands are used
• Add command aliases
• Fix: Ensure parsed elements are removed from original arguments when using :multiple_switches
• Ensure anything after -- is parsed as an argument and not option even if prefixed with /--?/
• Performance improvements when making many calls to Slop#option? for checking an options presence (Rob Gleeson)
• Ensure execute passes command arguments to the block
• Support for summary and description (Denis Defreyne)

1.8.0 (2011-06-12)

• Added execute method to Slop for commands. This block will be invoked when a specific command is used. The Slop object will be yielded to the block
• Allow passing a class name to on to be used as an :as option. ie: on :people, 'Some people', Array
• Get smart with parsing options optparse style: on '--name NAME' and on 'password [OPTIONAL]'
• Feature: :arguments setting to enable argument passing for all options

1.7.0 (2011-06-06)

• Feature: Autocreate (auto create options at parse time, making assumptions)
• Feature: When parsing options as arrays, push multiple arguments into a single array

1.6.1 (2011-06-01)

• Fix tests and using a temporary Array for ARGV, fixes RubyGems Test issues
• General cleanup of code

1.6.0 (2011-05-18)

• Add :ignore_case to Slop options for case insensitive option matching
• Add :on_noopts for triggering an event when the arguments contain no options
• Add :unless to Slop::Option for omitting execution of the Options block when this object exists in the Array of items passed to Slop.new
• Bugfix: Do not parse negative integers as options. A valid option must start with an alphabet character
• Bugfix: Allow a Range to accept a negative Integer at either end

1.5.5 (2011-05-03)

• Bugfix: only attempt to extract options prefixed with -

1.5.4 (2011-05-01)

• Bugfix: parse! should not remove items with the same value as items used in option arguments. Fixes #22 (Utkarsh Kukreti)

1.5.3 (2011-04-22)

• Bugfix: Use integers when fetching array indexes, not strings

1.5.2 (2011-04-17)

• Bugfix: Ensure ARGV is empty when using the on_empty event

1.5.0 (2011-04-15)

• Add Slop#get as alias to Slop#[]
• Add Slop#present? as alias for Slop#<option>?
• Add Option#count for monitoring how many times an option is called
• Add :io for using a custom IO object when using the :help option
• Numerous performance tweaks