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instance method

Gem::Command#add_option

add_option(*opts) { |value, options| ... }

Add a command-line option and handler to the command.

See Gem::OptionParser#make_switch for an explanation of opts.

handler will be called with two values, the value of the argument and the options hash.

If the first argument of add_option is a Symbol, it’s used to group options in output. See ‘gem help list` for an example.