# Anybody working on GEDCOM data? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 18, 2006, 11:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anybody-working-on-gedcom-data/58087 "2006-04-18T11:45:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wybodekker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@wybodekker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wybodekker)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 11:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anybody-working-on-gedcom-data/58087/1 "2006-04-18T11:45:23Z")
Is anybody working on GEDCOM-formatted genealogy data? (thinking of making a GEDCOM editor) ---
**Author:** ![wybodekker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@wybodekker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wybodekker)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 1:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anybody-working-on-gedcom-data/58087/2 "2006-04-18T13:42:52Z")
Wybo D. wrote: > Is anybody working on GEDCOM-formatted genealogy data? > (thinking of making a GEDCOM editor) Not as far as I know, but there are some GEDCOM parsers here: [http://rubyquiz.com/quiz6.html](http://rubyquiz.com/quiz6.html) Cheers, Dave ---
**Author:** ![wybodekker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@wybodekker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wybodekker)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 1:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anybody-working-on-gedcom-data/58087/3 "2006-04-18T13:46:02Z")
On 4/18/06, Wybo D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Is anybody working on GEDCOM-formatted genealogy data? > (thinking of making a GEDCOM editor) Not that I know of. Are you thinking of taking it on? I’d love to see this happen, and may be able to scrape up some docs etc. to help (and maybe put in some time, if I can scrape any together). (I work on the [www.familysearch.org](http://www.familysearch.org) site.) > – > Wybo – thanks, -pate ---
**Author:** ![wybodekker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@wybodekker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wybodekker)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anybody-working-on-gedcom-data/58087/4 "2006-04-19T15:39:00Z")
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Jacob F. wrote: > On 4/18/06, Wybo D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Is anybody working on GEDCOM-formatted genealogy data? > > (thinking of making a GEDCOM editor) > > Posted on behalf of Hans F… [1] > […] > I have all the docs necessary and would be happy to point people in > the right direction and/or mentor any efforts. I’m very interested in those docs! (and any other information you have) ---
**Author:** ![wybodekker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@wybodekker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wybodekker)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anybody-working-on-gedcom-data/58087/5 "2006-04-18T17:48:43Z")
On 4/18/06, Wybo D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Is anybody working on GEDCOM-formatted genealogy data? > (thinking of making a GEDCOM editor) Posted on behalf of Hans F… [1] > [@](#): > > The quiz stuff [mentioned by Dave B.] might make a good start, but > – with perhaps an exception or two – most of it is specific to the > quiz, and not as general as you’d want for a gedcom lib. > > Jamis B. has an old project from his ruby youth[2] to do gedcom > parsing. Jamis and I were working on a rewrite at one point. > > It’s not hard to make a basic gedcom parser, either sax style or dom > style, and I could probably do it in a weekend, but performance > optimization would be another story. When I wrote one in C++ (or was > it Java?) when doing research at the University it was terribly slow > due to dynamic memory allocation issues. Ruby may be better than my > naive dynamic memory allocation code, but I imagine you could still > make mistakes to cause problems with memory management. > > I have all the docs necessary and would be happy to point people in > the right direction and/or mentor any efforts. Jacob F. [1] Hans reads through the newsgroup, and apparently the gateway is broken, since he didn’t see this message. This is a minor editing of what he told me and asked to have posted to the mailing list after I pointed the thread out to him. You can contact him directly at removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [2] [http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/gedcom-ruby/](http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/gedcom-ruby/)