I'll be interested to see what responses you get, but I can't think of a more
efficient way. I'd try something like:
my_file.each_line do |line|
if line ~= /$User/ and this_user.username.length > 0 then
if this_user.save then
puts("Saved user #{this_user.username}")
else
puts("Problem saving #{this_user.username}!:\n#{this_user.errors}")
end
this_user = User.new
end
attribute, val = line.split(/:\s*/)
this_user.send(attribute.lower, val)
end
That's air-code obviously--may be wildly off...
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Jisho
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 10:50 AM
To: Ruby on Rails: Talk
Subject: [Rails] Beginner Question: Formatted Text Data -> Hash -> Database.
I have a text document that has formatted data in it, and I am attempted to
determine the best way to parse the data to break it up into hashes that I can
then write to my databases. I suppose my issue is determining where to tell
Ruby to STOP reading in data to write into the database. The file would be
similar to this:
User: Username
Phone: Phone number
Address: Address
Comments: Comments
Data1: Data
Data2: Data
Data3: Data
User: Username
Phone: Phone number
Address: Address
Comments: Comments
Data1: Data
Data2: Data
User: Username
Phone: Phone number
Address: Address
Comments: Comments
Data1: Data
Data2: Data
It's not that difficult to chomp the \n and use a split to create a hash in a
loop, but how do tell Ruby to start a new database write process if it hits a
new "user" key value? Should I write a case statement to check each line for a
"user" key and use that line to call a new instance of my database
class/method? Is there a faster or more efficient way?
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