ImportExport

A Ruby toolkit to import CSV files and export them into JSON.

• Simplicity is the fundamental principle of this library.
• It can be included in all types of Ruby applications.
• New formats can be easily included and customized.

File structure

• script is an executable ruby file that sets up and calls ImportExport (example).
• import_export.rb is the class that controls the import-export process.
• importer.rb is the class that opens, reads and transforms input files.
• exporter.rb is the class that formats and writes the output files.
• exporters/ includes subclasses of format-customized exporters.

Instructions

• Available formats should be configured and passed as arguments for running the process

  ImportExport.run!({ format: Exporter::Format, any_format: Exporter, ... })

• Format should be consistently named, so it is the name of the CSV file to import and JSON to export (e.g.: format "stock_items" would receive "stock_items.csv" and dump "stock_items.json")
• Format should have an existing Exporter class to customize or use the base Exporter class (e.g. Exporter::StockItems)

Adding Formats

• Included here is an example of how to import and export stock items (exporters/stock_items.rb).
• The class method format can be rewritten and customized to return a new hash for each row being exported.