Creating '.plist' (XML) file in ruby 2.1

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Hello,

I’d like to create the following ‘.plist’ (XML) file[1] from within a
ruby program:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Label org.atma.local ProgramArguments /Users/atma/Code/scripts/local.sh StartInterval 3600 RunAtLoad

I would like to have variables for ‘integer’ (e.g. <%= var
%> or something). What is the best way to create a predefined
file? I’ve code around using a strange notation ‘<<’ when it comes to
dumping lines of text or XML into ruby scripts but I can’t find any
specific examples right now.

best regards,

[1] https://gist.github.com/atmosx/10936292

Panagiotis (atmosx) Atmatzidis

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On 17/04/2014, at 9:53 am, Panagiotis A. [email protected]
wrote:

Hello,

I’d like to create the following ‘.plist’ (XML) file[1] from within a ruby
program:

Henry

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Subject: Creating ‘.plist’ (XML) file in ruby 2.1
Date: Wed 16 Apr 14 11:53:28PM +0200

Quoting Panagiotis A. ([email protected]):

I’d like to create the following ‘.plist’ (XML) file[1] from within a ruby
program:

The XML library that’s included in MRI (REXML) allows you to write XML
programmatically. Sadly, the documentation site indicated in the RI
page (www.germane-software.com) is currently not reachable, but some
docs are here:

http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.1.1/libdoc/rexml/rdoc/index.html

If you are just interested in XML code that’s correctly parsed
(i.e. you do not care about the resulting indentation), you can start
like this:

–8<----8<----8<----8<----8<–
require ‘rexml/rexml’
require ‘rexml/document’

d=REXML::Document::new

n=REXML::Element::new(‘plist’)
n.add_attribute(‘version’,‘1.0’)
d.push(n)

n2=REXML::Element::new(‘dict’)
n.push(n2)

n3=REXML::Element::new(‘key’)
n3.add_text(‘Label’)
n2.push(n3)

go on inserting elements

d.write
–8<----8<----8<----8<----8<–

The above example gives:

Label

There is some useful info in

ri REXML::Document

and

ri REXML::Element

Carlo

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On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Carlo E. Prelz [email protected]
wrote:

    Subject: Creating '.plist' (XML) file in ruby 2.1
    Date: Wed 16 Apr 14 11:53:28PM +0200

Quoting Panagiotis A. ([email protected]):

I’d like to create the following ‘.plist’ (XML) file[1] from within a ruby
program:

I use builder: GitHub - jimweirich/builder: Provide a simple way to create XML markup and data structures.

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Hello,

thank you all for the replies

On 18 Απρ 2014, at 03:01 , tamouse pontiki [email protected]
wrote:

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Carlo E. Prelz [email protected] wrote:

   Subject: Creating '.plist' (XML) file in ruby 2.1
   Date: Wed 16 Apr 14 11:53:28PM +0200

Quoting Panagiotis A. ([email protected]):

I’d like to create the following ‘.plist’ (XML) file[1] from within a ruby
program:

I use builder: GitHub - jimweirich/builder: Provide a simple way to create XML markup and data structures.

this solution seems to be the easier thanks!

Panagiotis (atmosx) Atmatzidis

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