Re: [ANN] Rio 0.3.4

I've been thinking exactly the same thing! (of course, it wouldn'ttake much to whoop Monad, but...) I'd be awesome! Script portabilitywould be a huge plus... Of couse, the first thing I envision would bereplacing  rio("myfile")with  "myfile"otherwise for general shell use (copying files and so on) it would bea pain to use.
Who's up for creating Rash (Ruby SHell)???
Jacob
On 9/7/05, Corey Lawson <[e-mail]> wrote:> Will a modification of IRB with RIO, and a few other things, possibly result> in a "ruby shell" that blows Monad away (but results in scripts that are> more or less portable between Win32, MacOS, and *nix?> > > On 9/6/05, rio4ruby <[e-mail]> wrote:> >> > New and Improved -- Rio 0.3.4> >> > == Overview> >> > Rio is a Ruby I/O convenience class wrapping much of the functionality> > of IO, File and Dir. Rio also uses 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.> >> > == SYNOPSIS> >> > For the following assume:> > astring = ""> > anarray = []> >> > Copy or append a file to a string> > rio('afile') > astring # copy> > rio('afile') >> astring # append> >> > Copy or append a string to a file> > rio('afile') < astring # copy> > rio('afile') << astring # append> >> > Copy or append the lines of a file to an array> > rio('afile') > anarray> > rio('afile') >> anarray> >> > Copy or append a file to another file> > rio('afile') > rio('another_file')> > rio('afile') >> rio('another_file')> >> > Copy a file to a directory> > rio('adir') << rio('afile')> >> > Copy a directory structure to another directory> > rio('adir') >> rio('another_directory')> >> > Copy a web-page to a file> > rio('http://rubydoc.org/') > rio('afile')> >> > Ways to get the chomped lines of a file into an array> > anarray = rio('afile').chomp[] # subscript operator> > rio('afile').chomp > anarray # copy-to operator> > anarray = rio('afile').chomp.to_a # to_a> > anarray = rio('afile').chomp.readlines # IO#readlines> >> > Copy a gzipped file un-gzipping it> > rio('afile.gz').gzip > rio('afile')> >> > Copy a plain file, gzipping it> > rio('afile.gz').gzip < rio('afile')> >> > Copy a file from a ftp server into a local file un-gzipping it> > rio('ftp://host/afile.gz').gzip > rio('afile')> >> > Iterate over the entries in a directory> > rio('adir').entries { |entrio| ... }> >> > Iterate over only the files in a directory> > rio('adir').files { |entrio| ... }> >> > Iterate over only the .rb files in a directory> > rio('adir').files('*.rb') { |entrio| ... }> >> > Iterate over .rb files but not symlinks to .rb files> > rio('adir').files('*.rb').skip(:symlink?) { |entrio| ... }> >> > Iterate over only the _dot_ files in a directory> > rio('adir').files(/^\./) { |entrio| ... }> >> > Iterate over the files in a directory and its subdirectories, skipping> > '.svn' and 'CVS' directories> >> > rio('adir').norecurse(/^\.svn$/,'CVS').files { |entrio| ... }> >> > Create an array of the .rb entries in a directory> > anarray = rio('adir')['*.rb']> >> > Create an array of the .rb entries in a directory and its> > subdirectories.> > anarray = rio('adir').all['*.rb']> >> > Iterate over the .rb files in a directory and its subdirectories> > rio('adir').all.files('*.rb') { |entrio| ... }> >> > Iterate over the non-empty, non-comment chomped lines of a file> > rio('afile').chomp.skip.lines(:empty?,/^\s*#/) { |line| ... }> >> > Copy the output of th ps command into an array, skipping the header> > line and the ps command entry> > rio(?-,'ps -a').skip.lines(0,/ps$/) > anarray> >> > Prompt for input and return what was typed> > ans = rio(?-).print("Type Something: ").chomp.gets> >> > Change the extension of all .htm files in a directory and its> > subdirectories to .html> > rio('adir').rename.all.files('*.htm') do |htmfile|> > htmfile.extname = '.html'> > end> >> > Create a symbolic link 'asymlink' in 'adir' which refers to> > 'adir/afile'> > rio('adir/afile').symlink('adir/asymlink')> >> > Copy a CSV file, changing the separator to a semicolon> > rio('comma.csv').csv > rio('semicolon.csv').csv(';')> >> > Iterate through a CSVfile with each line parsed into an array> > rio('afile.csv').csv { |array_of_fields| ...}> >> > 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")> >> > == New for version 0.3.4> >> > * New Grande Selection parameter.> >> > A major weakness of Rio's selection methods (lines, files, etc.)> > has always been that it only implemented a logical OR.> >> > rio('afile').lines(0..10,/Rio/) {...}> > iterates through lines that are in the range 0..10 OR> > contain 'Rio'.> >> > rio('adir').files(:executable?,'*.rb') {...}> > iterates through files that are executable OR match '*.rb'> >> > Selecting files that matched both required using a proc.> > rio('adir').files(proc{ |f| f.executable? and f.fnmatch?('*.rb')})> > {...}> >> > Rio's grande selection methods will now accept an array of conditions> > which must all be matched, in order to be selected. A logical AND.> >> > rio('adir').files([:executable?,'*.rb']) {...}> >> > The array, of course, need not be the only paramter.> >> > rio('adir').files('*.exe',[:executable?,'*.rb']) {...}> >> > selects .exe files and .rb files that are executable.> >> > * Renamed some of grande rejection methods.> > (based on a suggestion by Gavin Sinclair)> > nolines => skiplines> > nofiles => skipfiles> > etc.> >> > * New skip() grande method> > rio('afile').skip.lines(/Rio/) # same as skiplines(/Rio/)> > rio('afile').lines(/Rio/).skip(0..9) # lines with 'Rio', exclude> > # the first ten lines> >> > * Alternative syntaxes for creating Rios that have no path.> > rio(?-) # create a Rio refering to stdio> > rio(:stdio) # same thing.> > rio.stdio # same thing> > RIO.stdio # ditto> > RIO::Rio.stdio # once again> >> > * From Pathname added> > * root?> > * mountpoint?> > * realpath> > * cleanpath> >> > * Removed Rio#slurp in favor of Rio#contents.> >> > * Added aliases for the copy operators. (suggested by Dave Burt)> > * copy_to >> > * append_to >>> > * copy_from <> > * append_from <<> >> > * Bug fixes and corrections> >> > Project:: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rio/> > Documentation:: http://rio.rubyforge.org/> > Bugs:: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=821> > Email:: [e-mail]> >> > == Copyright> > Copyright (c) 2005, Christopher Kleckner. All rights reserved> >> > == License> > Rio is released under the GNU General Public License> > (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)> >> > -Christopher Kleckner> >> >> >> >