Ruby OptionParser Library

I've spent way too much time dealing with a challenging situation while using Ruby's OptionParser class and I wanted to give the solution that I found because maybe one day someone else who is beating their head against a desk will stumble on this.
 
I created a -u, --username switch for the CLI:

Code Snippet:

opts.on("-u", "--username", "Enter your e-mail username") do |u|       options[:username] = u

end

and called it (for purposes of testing) by

options = OptparseExample.parse(ARGV)

puts options[:username]

Now the problem is I wouldn't receive the actual string value that followed the -u or --username switch back.

So -u cktricky came back either nil or true........not much of a help.

After hours of confusion, literally hours, and although I feel pretty ignorant right about now I am going to tell you what the problem was..........(highlighted the change)

opts.on("-u", "--username USERNAME", "Enter your e-mail username") do |u|       options[:username] = u

end

So, the only change here was that I added USERNAME (could be any string you wanted)........basically I thought the "on" method chose the parameters via comma separation like any normal parameter iteration. Turns out I was wrong. Total and utter weirdness.

With that I am going to go bandage my head :-)