file_generator
Description
Every time we need to generate text files for our applications, we are writing code for every format we need to generate.
FileGenerator tries to minimize the ammount of code needed to perform this task.
How does it work?
FileGenerator takes the header, body, and footer file formats as input and additionally a hash with the data we want to export.
The format is expressed as string as follows:
0 => nombre 1 => longitud 2 => valor 3 => relleno 4 => alineado
as for instance:
body format "id:3:0:0:D,name:30:: :I,region_id:3:0:0:D"
and the data we want to export is:
["region_id"=>7, "name"=>"les Escaldes","region_id"=>7, "name"=>"Lima"]
FileGenerator will try to match the attribute names with the format names, if they dont match, it will assign the value to the line of the file to export, otherwise it will take the default value defined in the format.
It also has names for the format which stablishes a special field as for instance:
time: puts the current date with the format "·$"·$"·
nreg : put the ammount of records in the file in the body