cli-kit

cli-kit is a ruby Command-Line application framework. Its primary design goals are:

1. Modularity: The framework tries not to own your application, but rather to live on its edges.
2. Startup Time: cli-kit encourages heavy use of autoloading (and uses it extensively internally) to reduce the amount of code loaded and evaluated whilst booting your application. We are able to achieve a 130ms runtime in a project with 21kLoC and ~50 commands.

cli-kit is developed and heavily used by the Developer Infrastructure team at Shopify. We use it to build a number of internal developer tools, along with cli-ui.

Example Usage

You can see example usage here. We may one day build an application generator, as this framework paradigm requires a small amount of boilerplate. For now, the best way to get going is to use this example application as a starting point.