Lab Notes

Things I want to remember how to do.

Ruby Play List Copier, Take 1

August 2, 2012

So I finally got back to my Ruby play list project. The next mini-goal would be to parse a play list file and print out the converted file names. I created a PlayListEntry class and a PlayList class and things were moving along very well:

require 'taglib'

class PlayListEntry

SEPARATOR = " - "
SUFFIX = ".mp3"

attr_accessor :source, :dest, :dest_dir

def initialize(source)
@source = source
determine_dest
end

def set_dest_dir(dest_dir)
@dest_dir = dest_dir
end

def determine_dest
TagLib::FileRef.open(@source) do |fileref|
tag = fileref.tag
if not tag then
puts "No tags for #{source}"
next
end
basename = tag.artist + SEPARATOR + tag.album + SEPARATOR +
tag.track.to_s + SEPARATOR + tag.title + SUFFIX
if dest_dir then
@dest = File.join(dest_dir, basename)
else
@dest = basename
end
end
end

end

class PlayList

attr_accessor :playlist, :entries

def initialize(playlist)
@playlist = playlist
read_playlist
end

def read_playlist
@entries = []

File.open(playlist) do |file|
file.readlines.each do |line|
line = line.strip
if line.empty? or line[0] == '#' then
next
end
if File.exists?(line) then
@entries << PlayListEntry.new(line)
else
puts "File #{line} does not exist"
end
end
end

end

end

playlist = PlayList.new(ARGV[0])
playlist.entries.each {|x| puts x.dest }

That’s when I realized I am pretty much just doing Java style code in Ruby. I need to change this up and try to make it more Ruby-like. Possibilities include using modules or code blocks. We’ll see where it goes.