Parameters are Optional

Squib is all about sane defaults and shorthand specification. Arguments to DSL methods are almost always using hashes, which look a lot like Ruby 2.0’s named parameters. This means you can specify your parameters in any order you please. All parameters are optional.

For example x and y default to 0 (i.e. the upper-left corner of the card). Any parameter that is specified in the command overrides any Squib defaults or layout rules.

You must use named parameters rather than positional parameters. For example:

save(:png) # wrong

will lead to an error like this:

C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/squib-0.0.3/lib/squib/api/save.rb:12:in `save': wrong number of arguments (2 for 0..1) (ArgumentError)
    from deck.rb:22:in `block in <main>'
    from C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/squib-0.0.3/lib/squib/deck.rb:60:in `instance_eval'
    from C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/squib-0.0.3/lib/squib/deck.rb:60:in `initialize'
    from deck.rb:18:in `new'
    from deck.rb:18:in `<main>'

Instead, you must name the parameters:

save(format: :png) # the right way

Warning

If you provide an option to a DSL method that the DSL method does not recognize, Squib ignores the extraenous option without warning. For example, these two calls have identical behavior:

save_png prefix: 'front_'
save_png prefix: 'front_', narf: true # narf has no effect

This can be troublesome when you accidentally misspell an option and don’t realize it.