jashmenn-basket

= Basket

Easily process and sort a directory of files.

= Example:

Basket.process("orders") do |file| puts "we are processing #{file}" end

Assuming there are number of files in orders/inbox

• each file is +mv+'d to orders/pending
• the block is called on each file
• the file is +mv+'d to orders/archive

See Basket#process for a list of all the options.

= Install:

gem install jashmenn-basket --source http://gems.github.com

= More examples:

The output folder can be conditional based on the output of the block, as in the following example. In this case the default names of the folders are +success+ and +fail+ based on the return value of the block being +true+ or +false+.

:include:examples/02_conditional.rb

You can create arbitrary baskets for the output. If you specify :other then the files are not +mv+'d automatically. You must call the appropriate bang method on the file. For example:

:include:examples/03_other_baskets.rb

Baskets has (experimental) built-in support for doing parallel processing using forkoff. Example:

:include:examples/04_parallel.rb