From: anne001 <anne@...>
Date: 2006-08-02T10:15:06+09:00
Subject: Can you explain what this repo (yaml/Marshal) code do?

repositiory is a hash keyed on some kind of check sum derived from the
file.
But what is the use of Marshal? something to do with memory management,

instead of writing to file?
What is the format of what is spewed out?

REPO_FILE = "repo.bin".freeze

class Repository
  attr_accessor :main_dir, :duplicate_dir, :extensions

  def initialize(extensions = %w{mp3 ogg})
    @extension = extensions
    @repository = {}
  end

  def process_dir(dir)
    # find all files with the extensions we support
    Dir[File.join(dir, "*.{#{extensions.join(',')}}")].each do |f|
      process_file( File.join(dir, f) )
    end
  end

  def process_file(file)
    digest = digest(file)
    name = @repository[digest]

    if name
      target = duplicate_dir
      # ...
    else
      target = main_dir
      # ...
    end

    FileUtils.cp( file, File.join( target, File.basename( file ) ) )
  end

  def digest(file)
    Digest::MD5.hexdigest( File.open(file, 'rb') {|io| io.read})
  end

  def self.load(file)
    File.open(file, 'rb') {|io| Marshal.load(io)}
  end

  def save(file)
    File.open(file, 'wb') {|io| Marshal.dump(self, io)}
  end
end

repo = begin
  Repository.load( REPO_FILE )
rescue Exception => e
  # not there => create
  r = Repository.new
  r.main_dir = "foo"
  r.duplicate_dir = "bar"
  r
end

ARGV.each {|dir| repo.process_dir(dir)}

repo.save( REPO_FILE )
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_frm/thread/88c20ef88239c54a/fa358e55b7f86841?lnk=gst&q=repo&rnum=2#fa358e55b7f86841