From: Jon Egil Strand <jes@...>
Date: 2007-01-06T06:23:28+09:00
Subject: Re: CSV ORM


Gregory and James

Thank you so much for your precise and speedy replies, I am thankful both 
for your suggestions and for your effort in building these libraries.

With FasterCSV I espescially like the ability to set 

	:headers => "my;custom;header"

and with ruport it seems very covenient to add some simple logic within 
the Ruport::Data::Record class.

James - your code example is very neat, but since I'm blessed with a 
simple mind I traded space for readability:

-------------------------------------------------
	FROM
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people = FCSV(data, :col_sep           => ";",
                    :headers           => true,
                    :header_converters => :symbol ) do |csv|
   csv.inject(Array.new) { |all, person| all + [OpenStruct.new(person.to_hash)] }
end

# example usage
puts people.map { |person| person.first_name }


-------------------------------------------------
	TO
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people = Array.new
FCSV(data, :col_sep           => ";",
           :headers           => true,
           :header_converters => :symbol ) do |csv|   
  csv.each do |csvrow|
    people.push OpenStruct.new(csvrow.to_hash)
  end
end

people.each do |person|
  puts person.first_name
end
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Not meaning to bash your suggestion, just sharing my initial reaction. Any 
comments or caveats?


Anyway, both your suggestions surpass my needs though, so from here on in
it's a breeze. Thank you.


JE