From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-07-21T05:21:24+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Mongoose 0.1.1

On Jul 20, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Jamey Cribbs wrote:

> James Edward Gray II wrote:
>> On Jul 20, 2006, at 2:21 PM, Jamey Cribbs wrote:
>>
>>> My plan is to slowly bring Mongoose up to the same feature set as  
>>> KirbyBase.
>>
>> Does �hat mean Mongoose will gain a plain text output, maybe using  
>> YAML instead of Marshal to dump?
>>
>> I realize Marshal is a key element of the knew performance.  I'm  
>> just wondering if there could be an option, for those who was the  
>> easily edited data and are willing to make the speed sacrifice.
> I think I am going to tackle this one using a two-pronged approach:
>
> 1).  I will soon add #import and #export methods to the Table  
> class, so that if you needed to edit a table as text, you could  
> simply #export all of the records to  a text file, edit it, then  
> #import the text file back into the table.  I was planning on  
> making the format CSV (taking advantage of FasterCSV, perhaps  
> you've heard of it ;-) ).  Would people prefer YAML instead?  My  
> thought with YAML was just that, with a large table, it could quite  
> large, since it places each field on a newline.

Ooo, I really like this option actually.  This way you keep all the  
speed and can still edit as needed.

My only request would be to keep the interface to this trivial to get  
at.  It would be perfect if you could do something like:

   ruby -r mongoose -e '...DUMP CODE HERE...' > table.csv

James Edward Gray II