From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2006-09-30T00:30:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubygems front end?

	Thanks for the responses. I ended up just regexing the gem list -- 
remote output as it was simple to do. I'll share here in case someone  
else ends up wanting something like this. Here is a rake task that  
will pull the gem list and parse it into a hash with he name of the  
gem as the key and versions and descriptions as subhashes of the gem  
name key. THen it populates a bunch of GemIndex ActiveRecord Objects.

namespace :parsegems do
   def parse_gems(gem_list)
     hsh={}
     last = ''
     gem_list.each do |line|
       case line
       when /(\w+)\s+\((.*?)\)/
         (hsh[$1] ||= {})[:versions]=$2
         last = $1
       when /\A(\s+\w.*?)\Z/
         (hsh[last][:desc] ||= '') << ($1+' ')
       end
     end
     hsh
   end

   desc 'Gets the gems list --remote and parse it into the app_gems  
database table for quick autocomplete.'
   task :import => :environment do
     hsh = parse_gems(`gem list --remote`)
     hsh.keys.each do |key|
       g = GemIndex.find_or_create_by_name(key)
       g.update_attributes :versions => hsh[key][:versions],
                           :description => hsh[key][:desc]
       puts "Imported Gem Data for: #{key}"
     end
   end

end


Cheers-
-Ezra