comp.lang.ruby

Matt Rose

9/13/2006 12:47:00 AM

I've done an even uglier hack for my makefiles at work.

I'd definitely be interested in it if you came up with something like
this.

Matt

On 11-Sep-06, at 10:45 AM, Ola Bini wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have the need to filter files, replacing in-place-tokens with
> variables during the copy. I would like to be able to do something
> like this:
>
> FileUtils.filter_cp_r from_dir, to_dir, { "SERVER1" =>
> "s1.example.com",
> /LDAP_SERVER_([\d])/ => "l\\1.example.com" }
> and those files will be copied, but modified so that in the
> destination dir, all occurances of SERVER1 have been changed to
> s1.example.com and the regexp substituted with the substitution
> string.
>
> Is there any library for this? I've looked but not found. My
> current approach is to create a small lib for this myself, using
> FileUtils, Find and Tempfile. But it feels like this should be a
> common operation, especially when doing installation scripts.
>
> And before someone suggests it: no, I'm not at liberty to change
> the tokens, so I can't embed ERb-tags in the source material.
>
> --
> Ola Bini (http://ola-bini.bl...)
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>
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>