Re: [CODE4LIB] A few Ruby MARC announcements

2009-09-24 Thread Ross Singer
Thanks for pointing that out, Ed. Since, of course, the only thing worse than lies and damn lies are, as we know, statistics, let me give some context here :) These benchmarks were run on a 45MB marcxml document with a little less than 17k records in it that I happened to have on my machine.

[CODE4LIB] A few Ruby MARC announcements

2009-09-23 Thread Ross Singer
Hi everybody, Apologies for the crossposting. I wanted to let people know that Ruby MARC 0.3.0 was just released as a gem. This version addresses the biggest complaint about Ruby MARC, which was the fact that it could only parse MARCXML with REXML, Ruby's native XML parser (which, if you've

Re: [CODE4LIB] A few Ruby MARC announcements

2009-09-23 Thread Ed Summers
Nice work Ross! Users of rubymarc might like to see the performance enhancements that motivated you to do the nokogiri integration: http://paste.lisp.org/display/87529 !!! //Ed On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody, Apologies for the