This a simple demo app that shows off how to use cli-kit to
construct a simple CLI app.
Suggested reading order:
exe/todolib/todo.rb- everything else under
lib/
You'll notice that we make heavy use of autoload, dependency code is vendored, and we invoke ruby
with --disable-gems. These are primary design feature of cli-kit, allowing very quick startup,
which is valuable for CLI tools.
cli-kit-example has two options depending on how you'd like the cli-kit and cli-ui dependencies
managed: vendor mode and gems mode.
To use vendor mode, remove Gemfile and exe/todo-gems.
To use gems mode, remove bin/update-deps, vendor, and exe/todo-gems.
vendor mode boots a little faster: Bundler and in particular Rubygems have a surprisingly large
boot-time penalty, and in some situations, having all required code vendored can simplify
distribution.