Raised when encountering an object that is not of the expected type.
[1, 2, 3].first("two")
raises the exception:
TypeError: no implicit conversion of String into Integer
Raised when the given index is invalid.
a = [:foo, :bar] a.fetch(0) #=> :foo a[4] #=> nil a.fetch(4) #=> IndexError: index 4 outside of array bounds: -2...2
Raised when the specified key is not found. It is a subclass of IndexError.
h = {"foo" => :bar} h.fetch("foo") #=> :bar h.fetch("baz") #=> KeyError: key not found: "baz"
ScriptError is the superclass for errors raised when a script can not be executed because of a LoadError, NotImplementedError or a SyntaxError. Note these type of ScriptErrors are not StandardError and will not be rescued unless it is specified explicitly (or its ancestor Exception).
Raised when encountering Ruby code with an invalid syntax.
eval("1+1=2")
raises the exception:
SyntaxError: (eval):1: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting $end
Raised when a file required (a Ruby script, extension library, …) fails to load.
require 'this/file/does/not/exist'
raises the exception:
LoadError: no such file to load -- this/file/does/not/exist
Raised when a feature is not implemented on the current platform. For example, methods depending on the fsync or fork system calls may raise this exception if the underlying operating system or Ruby runtime does not support them.
Note that if fork raises a NotImplementedError, then respond_to?(:fork) returns false.
Raised when a given name is invalid or undefined.
puts foo
raises the exception:
NameError: undefined local variable or method `foo' for main:Object
Since constant names must start with a capital:
Integer.const_set :answer, 42
raises the exception:
NameError: wrong constant name answer
Raised when a method is called on a receiver which doesn’t have it defined and also fails to respond with method_missing.
"hello".to_ary
raises the exception:
NoMethodError: undefined method `to_ary' for "hello":String
A generic error class raised when an invalid operation is attempted. Kernel#raise will raise a RuntimeError if no Exception class is specified.
raise "ouch"
raises the exception:
RuntimeError: ouch
No longer used by internal code.
Raised when memory allocation fails.
EncodingError is the base class for encoding errors.
SystemCallError is the base class for all low-level platform-dependent errors.
The errors available on the current platform are subclasses of SystemCallError and are defined in the Errno module.
File.open("does/not/exist")
raises the exception:
Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - does/not/exist
A rational number can be represented as a pair of integer numbers: a/b (b>0), where a is the numerator and b is the denominator. Integer a equals rational a/1 mathematically.
You can create a Rational object explicitly with:
A rational literal.
You can convert certain objects to Rationals with:
Method Rational.
Examples
Rational(1) #=> (1/1) Rational(2, 3) #=> (2/3) Rational(4, -6) #=> (-2/3) # Reduced. 3.to_r #=> (3/1) 2/3r #=> (2/3)
You can also create rational objects from floating-point numbers or strings.
Rational(0.3) #=> (5404319552844595/18014398509481984) Rational('0.3') #=> (3/10) Rational('2/3') #=> (2/3) 0.3.to_r #=> (5404319552844595/18014398509481984) '0.3'.to_r #=> (3/10) '2/3'.to_r #=> (2/3) 0.3.rationalize #=> (3/10)
A rational object is an exact number, which helps you to write programs without any rounding errors.
10.times.inject(0) {|t| t + 0.1 } #=> 0.9999999999999999 10.times.inject(0) {|t| t + Rational('0.1') } #=> (1/1)
However, when an expression includes an inexact component (numerical value or operation), it will produce an inexact result.
Rational(10) / 3 #=> (10/3) Rational(10) / 3.0 #=> 3.3333333333333335 Rational(-8) ** Rational(1, 3) #=> (1.0000000000000002+1.7320508075688772i)
A Range object represents a collection of values that are between given begin and end values.
You can create an Range object explicitly with:
A range literal:
# Ranges that use '..' to include the given end value. (1..4).to_a # => [1, 2, 3, 4] ('a'..'d').to_a # => ["a", "b", "c", "d"] # Ranges that use '...' to exclude the given end value. (1...4).to_a # => [1, 2, 3] ('a'...'d').to_a # => ["a", "b", "c"]
A range may be created using method Range.new:
# Ranges that by default include the given end value. Range.new(1, 4).to_a # => [1, 2, 3, 4] Range.new('a', 'd').to_a # => ["a", "b", "c", "d"] # Ranges that use third argument +exclude_end+ to exclude the given end value. Range.new(1, 4, true).to_a # => [1, 2, 3] Range.new('a', 'd', true).to_a # => ["a", "b", "c"]
A beginless range has a definite end value, but a nil begin value. Such a range includes all values up to the end value.
r = (..4) # => nil..4 r.begin # => nil r.include?(-50) # => true r.include?(4) # => true r = (...4) # => nil...4 r.include?(4) # => false Range.new(nil, 4) # => nil..4 Range.new(nil, 4, true) # => nil...4
A beginless range may be used to slice an array:
a = [1, 2, 3, 4] r = (..2) # => nil...2 a[r] # => [1, 2]
Method each for a beginless range raises an exception.
An endless range has a definite begin value, but a nil end value. Such a range includes all values from the begin value.
r = (1..) # => 1.. r.end # => nil r.include?(50) # => true Range.new(1, nil) # => 1..
The literal for an endless range may be written with either two dots or three. The range has the same elements, either way. But note that the two are not equal:
r0 = (1..) # => 1.. r1 = (1...) # => 1... r0.begin == r1.begin # => true r0.end == r1.end # => true r0 == r1 # => false
An endless range may be used to slice an array:
a = [1, 2, 3, 4] r = (2..) # => 2.. a[r] # => [3, 4]
Method each for an endless range calls the given block indefinitely:
a = [] r = (1..) r.each do |i| a.push(i) if i.even? break if i > 10 end a # => [2, 4, 6, 8, 10]
A range can be both beginless and endless. For literal beginless, endless ranges, at least the beginning or end of the range must be given as an explicit nil value. It is recommended to use an explicit nil beginning and implicit nil end, since that is what Ruby uses for Range#inspect:
(nil..) # => (nil..) (..nil) # => (nil..) (nil..nil) # => (nil..)
An object may be put into a range if its class implements instance method <=>. Ruby core classes that do so include Array, Complex, File::Stat, Float, Integer, Kernel, Module, Numeric, Rational, String, Symbol, and Time.
Example:
t0 = Time.now # => 2021-09-19 09:22:48.4854986 -0500 t1 = Time.now # => 2021-09-19 09:22:56.0365079 -0500 t2 = Time.now # => 2021-09-19 09:23:08.5263283 -0500 (t0..t2).include?(t1) # => true (t0..t1).include?(t2) # => false
A range can be iterated over only if its elements implement instance method succ. Ruby core classes that do so include Integer, String, and Symbol (but not the other classes mentioned above).
Iterator methods include:
Included from module Enumerable: each_entry, each_with_index, each_with_object, each_slice, each_cons, and reverse_each.
Example:
a = [] (1..4).each {|i| a.push(i) } a # => [1, 2, 3, 4]
A user-defined class that is to be used in a range must implement instance <=>; see Integer#<=>. To make iteration available, it must also implement instance method succ; see Integer#succ.
The class below implements both <=> and succ, and so can be used both to construct ranges and to iterate over them. Note that the Comparable module is included so the == method is defined in terms of <=>.
# Represent a string of 'X' characters. class Xs include Comparable attr_accessor :length def initialize(n) @length = n end def succ Xs.new(@length + 1) end def <=>(other) @length <=> other.length end def to_s sprintf "%2d #{inspect}", @length end def inspect 'X' * @length end end r = Xs.new(3)..Xs.new(6) #=> XXX..XXXXXX r.to_a #=> [XXX, XXXX, XXXXX, XXXXXX] r.include?(Xs.new(5)) #=> true r.include?(Xs.new(7)) #=> false
First, what’s elsewhere. Class Range:
Inherits from class Object.
Includes module Enumerable, which provides dozens of additional methods.
Here, class Range provides methods that are useful for:
::new: Returns a new range.
begin: Returns the begin value given for self.
bsearch: Returns an element from self selected by a binary search.
count: Returns a count of elements in self.
end: Returns the end value given for self.
exclude_end?: Returns whether the end object is excluded.
first: Returns the first elements of self.
hash: Returns the integer hash code.
last: Returns the last elements of self.
max: Returns the maximum values in self.
min: Returns the minimum values in self.
minmax: Returns the minimum and maximum values in self.
size: Returns the count of elements in self.
==: Returns whether a given object is equal to self (uses ==).
===: Returns whether the given object is between the begin and end values.
cover?: Returns whether a given object is within self.
eql?: Returns whether a given object is equal to self (uses eql?).
include? (aliased as member?): Returns whether a given object is an element of self.
%: Requires argument n; calls the block with each n-th element of self.
each: Calls the block with each element of self.
step: Takes optional argument n (defaults to 1); calls the block with each n-th element of self.
SocketError is the error class for socket.
StringScanner provides for lexical scanning operations on a String. Here is an example of its usage:
require 'strscan' s = StringScanner.new('This is an example string') s.eos? # -> false p s.scan(/\w+/) # -> "This" p s.scan(/\w+/) # -> nil p s.scan(/\s+/) # -> " " p s.scan(/\s+/) # -> nil p s.scan(/\w+/) # -> "is" s.eos? # -> false p s.scan(/\s+/) # -> " " p s.scan(/\w+/) # -> "an" p s.scan(/\s+/) # -> " " p s.scan(/\w+/) # -> "example" p s.scan(/\s+/) # -> " " p s.scan(/\w+/) # -> "string" s.eos? # -> true p s.scan(/\s+/) # -> nil p s.scan(/\w+/) # -> nil
Scanning a string means remembering the position of a scan pointer, which is just an index. The point of scanning is to move forward a bit at a time, so matches are sought after the scan pointer; usually immediately after it.
Given the string “test string”, here are the pertinent scan pointer positions:
t e s t s t r i n g
0 1 2 ... 1
0
When you scan for a pattern (a regular expression), the match must occur at the character after the scan pointer. If you use scan_until, then the match can occur anywhere after the scan pointer. In both cases, the scan pointer moves just beyond the last character of the match, ready to scan again from the next character onwards. This is demonstrated by the example above.
Method Categories There are other methods besides the plain scanners. You can look ahead in the string without actually scanning. You can access the most recent match. You can modify the string being scanned, reset or terminate the scanner, find out or change the position of the scan pointer, skip ahead, and so on.
beginning_of_line? (bol?)
Data There are aliases to several of the methods.
Raised when OLE processing failed.
EX:
obj = WIN32OLE.new("NonExistProgID")
raises the exception:
WIN32OLERuntimeError: unknown OLE server: `NonExistProgID'
HRESULT error code:0x800401f3
Invalid class string
Raised when an IO operation fails.
File.open("/etc/hosts") {|f| f << "example"} #=> IOError: not opened for writing File.open("/etc/hosts") {|f| f.close; f.read } #=> IOError: closed stream
Note that some IO failures raise SystemCallErrors and these are not subclasses of IOError:
File.open("does/not/exist") #=> Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - does/not/exist
Raised by some IO operations when reaching the end of file. Many IO methods exist in two forms,
one that returns nil when the end of file is reached, the other raises EOFError.
EOFError is a subclass of IOError.
file = File.open("/etc/hosts") file.read file.gets #=> nil file.readline #=> EOFError: end of file reached file.close
ARGF is a stream designed for use in scripts that process files given as command-line arguments or passed in via STDIN.
The arguments passed to your script are stored in the ARGV Array, one argument per element. ARGF assumes that any arguments that aren’t filenames have been removed from ARGV. For example:
$ ruby argf.rb --verbose file1 file2 ARGV #=> ["--verbose", "file1", "file2"] option = ARGV.shift #=> "--verbose" ARGV #=> ["file1", "file2"]
You can now use ARGF to work with a concatenation of each of these named files. For instance, ARGF.read will return the contents of file1 followed by the contents of file2.
After a file in ARGV has been read ARGF removes it from the Array. Thus, after all files have been read ARGV will be empty.
You can manipulate ARGV yourself to control what ARGF operates on. If you remove a file from ARGV, it is ignored by ARGF; if you add files to ARGV, they are treated as if they were named on the command line. For example:
ARGV.replace ["file1"] ARGF.readlines # Returns the contents of file1 as an Array ARGV #=> [] ARGV.replace ["file2", "file3"] ARGF.read # Returns the contents of file2 and file3
If ARGV is empty, ARGF acts as if it contained STDIN, i.e. the data piped to your script. For example:
$ echo "glark" | ruby -e 'p ARGF.read' "glark\n"
OptionParser See the Tutorial.
OptionParser is a class for command-line option analysis. It is much more advanced, yet also easier to use, than GetoptLong, and is a more Ruby-oriented solution.
The argument specification and the code to handle it are written in the same place.
It can output an option summary; you don’t need to maintain this string separately.
Optional and mandatory arguments are specified very gracefully.
Arguments can be automatically converted to a specified class.
Arguments can be restricted to a certain set.
All of these features are demonstrated in the examples below. See make_switch for full documentation.
require 'optparse' options = {} OptionParser.new do |parser| parser.banner = "Usage: example.rb [options]" parser.on("-v", "--[no-]verbose", "Run verbosely") do |v| options[:verbose] = v end end.parse! p options p ARGV
OptionParser can be used to automatically generate help for the commands you write:
require 'optparse' Options = Struct.new(:name) class Parser def self.parse(options) args = Options.new("world") opt_parser = OptionParser.new do |parser| parser.banner = "Usage: example.rb [options]" parser.on("-nNAME", "--name=NAME", "Name to say hello to") do |n| args.name = n end parser.on("-h", "--help", "Prints this help") do puts parser exit end end opt_parser.parse!(options) return args end end options = Parser.parse %w[--help] #=> # Usage: example.rb [options] # -n, --name=NAME Name to say hello to # -h, --help Prints this help
For options that require an argument, option specification strings may include an option name in all caps. If an option is used without the required argument, an exception will be raised.
require 'optparse' options = {} OptionParser.new do |parser| parser.on("-r", "--require LIBRARY", "Require the LIBRARY before executing your script") do |lib| puts "You required #{lib}!" end end.parse!
Used:
$ ruby optparse-test.rb -r optparse-test.rb:9:in `<main>': missing argument: -r (OptionParser::MissingArgument) $ ruby optparse-test.rb -r my-library You required my-library!
OptionParser supports the ability to coerce command line arguments into objects for us.
OptionParser comes with a few ready-to-use kinds of type coercion. They are:
Date – Anything accepted by Date.parse
DateTime – Anything accepted by DateTime.parse
Time – Anything accepted by Time.httpdate or Time.parse
Shellwords – Anything accepted by Shellwords.shellwords
String – Any non-empty string
Integer – Any integer. Will convert octal. (e.g. 124, -3, 040)
Float – Any float. (e.g. 10, 3.14, -100E+13)
Numeric – Any integer, float, or rational (1, 3.4, 1/3)
DecimalInteger – Like Integer, but no octal format.
OctalInteger – Like Integer, but no decimal format.
DecimalNumeric – Decimal integer or float.
TrueClass – Accepts ‘+, yes, true, -, no, false’ and defaults as true
FalseClass – Same as TrueClass, but defaults to false
Array – Strings separated by ‘,’ (e.g. 1,2,3)
Regexp – Regular expressions. Also includes options.
We can also add our own coercions, which we will cover below.
As an example, the built-in Time conversion is used. The other built-in conversions behave in the same way. OptionParser will attempt to parse the argument as a Time. If it succeeds, that time will be passed to the handler block. Otherwise, an exception will be raised.
require 'optparse' require 'optparse/time' OptionParser.new do |parser| parser.on("-t", "--time [TIME]", Time, "Begin execution at given time") do |time| p time end end.parse!
Used:
$ ruby optparse-test.rb -t nonsense ... invalid argument: -t nonsense (OptionParser::InvalidArgument) $ ruby optparse-test.rb -t 10-11-12 2010-11-12 00:00:00 -0500 $ ruby optparse-test.rb -t 9:30 2014-08-13 09:30:00 -0400
The accept method on OptionParser may be used to create converters. It specifies which conversion block to call whenever a class is specified. The example below uses it to fetch a User object before the on handler receives it.
require 'optparse' User = Struct.new(:id, :name) def find_user id not_found = ->{ raise "No User Found for id #{id}" } [ User.new(1, "Sam"), User.new(2, "Gandalf") ].find(not_found) do |u| u.id == id end end op = OptionParser.new op.accept(User) do |user_id| find_user user_id.to_i end op.on("--user ID", User) do |user| puts user end op.parse!
Used:
$ ruby optparse-test.rb --user 1 #<struct User id=1, name="Sam"> $ ruby optparse-test.rb --user 2 #<struct User id=2, name="Gandalf"> $ ruby optparse-test.rb --user 3 optparse-test.rb:15:in `block in find_user': No User Found for id 3 (RuntimeError)
Hash The into option of order, parse and so on methods stores command line options into a Hash.
require 'optparse' options = {} OptionParser.new do |parser| parser.on('-a') parser.on('-b NUM', Integer) parser.on('-v', '--verbose') end.parse!(into: options) p options
Used:
$ ruby optparse-test.rb -a
{:a=>true}
$ ruby optparse-test.rb -a -v
{:a=>true, :verbose=>true}
$ ruby optparse-test.rb -a -b 100
{:a=>true, :b=>100}
The following example is a complete Ruby program. You can run it and see the effect of specifying various options. This is probably the best way to learn the features of optparse.
require 'optparse' require 'optparse/time' require 'ostruct' require 'pp' class OptparseExample Version = '1.0.0' CODES = %w[iso-2022-jp shift_jis euc-jp utf8 binary] CODE_ALIASES = { "jis" => "iso-2022-jp", "sjis" => "shift_jis" } class ScriptOptions attr_accessor :library, :inplace, :encoding, :transfer_type, :verbose, :extension, :delay, :time, :record_separator, :list def initialize self.library = [] self.inplace = false self.encoding = "utf8" self.transfer_type = :auto self.verbose = false end def define_options(parser) parser.banner = "Usage: example.rb [options]" parser.separator "" parser.separator "Specific options:" # add additional options perform_inplace_option(parser) delay_execution_option(parser) execute_at_time_option(parser) specify_record_separator_option(parser) list_example_option(parser) specify_encoding_option(parser) optional_option_argument_with_keyword_completion_option(parser) boolean_verbose_option(parser) parser.separator "" parser.separator "Common options:" # No argument, shows at tail. This will print an options summary. # Try it and see! parser.on_tail("-h", "--help", "Show this message") do puts parser exit end # Another typical switch to print the version. parser.on_tail("--version", "Show version") do puts Version exit end end def perform_inplace_option(parser) # Specifies an optional option argument parser.on("-i", "--inplace [EXTENSION]", "Edit ARGV files in place", "(make backup if EXTENSION supplied)") do |ext| self.inplace = true self.extension = ext || '' self.extension.sub!(/\A\.?(?=.)/, ".") # Ensure extension begins with dot. end end def delay_execution_option(parser) # Cast 'delay' argument to a Float. parser.on("--delay N", Float, "Delay N seconds before executing") do |n| self.delay = n end end def execute_at_time_option(parser) # Cast 'time' argument to a Time object. parser.on("-t", "--time [TIME]", Time, "Begin execution at given time") do |time| self.time = time end end def specify_record_separator_option(parser) # Cast to octal integer. parser.on("-F", "--irs [OCTAL]", OptionParser::OctalInteger, "Specify record separator (default \\0)") do |rs| self.record_separator = rs end end def list_example_option(parser) # List of arguments. parser.on("--list x,y,z", Array, "Example 'list' of arguments") do |list| self.list = list end end def specify_encoding_option(parser) # Keyword completion. We are specifying a specific set of arguments (CODES # and CODE_ALIASES - notice the latter is a Hash), and the user may provide # the shortest unambiguous text. code_list = (CODE_ALIASES.keys + CODES).join(', ') parser.on("--code CODE", CODES, CODE_ALIASES, "Select encoding", "(#{code_list})") do |encoding| self.encoding = encoding end end def optional_option_argument_with_keyword_completion_option(parser) # Optional '--type' option argument with keyword completion. parser.on("--type [TYPE]", [:text, :binary, :auto], "Select transfer type (text, binary, auto)") do |t| self.transfer_type = t end end def boolean_verbose_option(parser) # Boolean switch. parser.on("-v", "--[no-]verbose", "Run verbosely") do |v| self.verbose = v end end end # # Return a structure describing the options. # def parse(args) # The options specified on the command line will be collected in # *options*. @options = ScriptOptions.new @args = OptionParser.new do |parser| @options.define_options(parser) parser.parse!(args) end @options end attr_reader :parser, :options end # class OptparseExample example = OptparseExample.new options = example.parse(ARGV) pp options # example.options pp ARGV
Completion For modern shells (e.g. bash, zsh, etc.), you can use shell completion for command line options.
The above examples, along with the accompanying Tutorial, should be enough to learn how to use this class. If you have any questions, file a ticket at bugs.ruby-lang.org.