Ruby XML translator

28Nov07

I’ve been doing work experience at AMV over the last month. One of the things that I’ve been working on is a workflow for video assets – managing assets (and information about them) in the file system and between various databases. We set up some ‘chron jobs’ to trigger scripts that interrogate the assets and output XML, these were used along with folder actions watching for new files. This managed the flow of data between the various databases, aggregating it into a ‘master copy’ of information about the asset.

I wrote a set of Ruby scripts to take several XML files, concatenate them and reformat them for input to another database. I had several problems to overcome including; checking for the existence of files and directories and sorting the data by nested properties.

I believe the script is still in use.

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