# Roo gem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/roo-gem/140981>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 20, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/roo-gem/140981 "2008-06-20T12:41:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![kisrti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/d2c977/32.png) [@kisrti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kisrti)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/roo-gem/140981/1 "2008-06-20T12:41:19Z")

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Hi,

I am using ‘roo gem’ for importing data from xml file.

My code is importing data from xml file and storing it in  
database(MySQL).  
All is going fine.

But my issue is that ,i am importing file which is of 64 Kb size and  
‘roo’ is taking appr. 3 hours to import this data and store in database.

So ,i want to know is it a known issue that ‘roo’ takes time or there is  
something wrong in my code.

Suggest

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**Author:** ![kisrti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/d2c977/32.png) [@kisrti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kisrti)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/roo-gem/140981/2 "2008-06-20T13:06:25Z")

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Never heard of it so far.  
We use hpricot for parsing xml and it works fine.

[http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/wiki/AnHpricotShowcase](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/wiki/AnHpricotShowcase)

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**Author:** ![kisrti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/d2c977/32.png) [@kisrti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kisrti)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/roo-gem/140981/3 "2008-06-20T21:19:10Z")

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2008/6/20 Ss Kk [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

> Hi,
> 
> I am using ‘roo gem’ for importing data from xml file.

are you talking about this gem?  
[http://rubyforge.org/projects/roo/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/roo/)