Ruby Play List Copier, Take 1

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.