rangeclient synopsis

rangehost = ARGV.shift
rangearg = ARGV.shift

# Create range object for communication with ranged
r = Range::Client.new({:host => rangehost})

# use ranged to expand the range expression into an Array
# "foo10..12" => [ foo10, foo11, foo12 ] OR %foo => [ foo10, foo11, foo12 ]
hosts =  r.expand(rangearg)

# use ranged to compress the array of hostnames into a range expression
# [ foo10, foo11, foo12 ] => "foo10..12"
range_exp = r.compress(hosts)