From: rio4ruby <rio4ruby@...>
Date: 2005-08-20T09:21:16+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Rio 0.3.3

For your perusal -- Rio 0.3.3

== Overview

Rio is a Ruby I/O convenience class wrapping much of the functionality
of IO, File and Dir. Rio also uses Pathname, FileUtils, Tempfile,
StringIO, OpenURI, Zlib, and CSV to provide similar functionality using
a simple consistent interface. In addition to forwarding the interfaces
provided by IO, File, and Dir to an appropriate object, Rio provides
a "grande" interface that allows many common application-level I/O and
file-system tasks to be expressed succinctly.

== New for version 0.3.3
* Expanded support and documentation for CSV files
  Examples:
  * Copy, changing the separator to a semicolon
     rio('comma.csv').csv > rio('semicolon.csv').csv(';')
  * Iterate through a file with each line parsed into an array
     rio('afile.csv').csv { |array_of_fields| ...}
  * Create an array of arrays of selected fields
     array_of_arrays = rio('afile.csv').csv.columns(1..3,7).to_a
  * Create a tab separated file of accounts in a UNIX passwd file,
    listing only the username, uid, and realname fields
     rio('/etc/passwd').csv(':').columns(0,2,4) > rio('rpt').csv("\t")

Project:: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rio/
Documentation:: http://rio.rubyforge.org/
Bugs:: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=821