Hyphenated subcommand in Thor

Question

I'm writing a CLI gem with Thor. Right now I have two subcommands with names that I'd like to be hyphenated. But I can't figure out how to make that work.

Here's the main class

module CLI
  class Base < Thor

    desc "api-token COMMAND", "Configure the API token"
    subcommand "api-token", ApiToken

Here's the subcommand class

module CLI
  class ApiToken < Thor
    include Shared

    namespace "api-token"

The subcommand shows up in the main help output, and if I enter

$ bundle exec bin/cli help api-token

it shows me the right output for the subcommands actions. So something is connecting at least.

But when I try to use the command, this is what I see

$ bundle exec bin/cli api-token set
> Could not find command "api-token".

The command works fine if I make it one word or use an underscore, but I really prefer a hyphen.

Answer 1

There's no map required, just

class Test < Thor
  desc 'howto-dash', "dash in command name"
  def howto_dash
    puts "dashing through the snow"
  end
end

Output:

> thor list
test
----
thor test:howto-dash  # dash in command name

Answer 2

In case anyone is wondering about this, you can use Thor.map to map a string to a method/command. Ex.

desc "Command help", "Longer command description"
def package_all
  puts "Packing..."
end
map "package-all" => "package_all"

Link to the documentation: Thor#map-class_method