Diff for 2 Text Files

[jackster the jackle]

Is there an easy way available in Ruby to compare two text files and
report the differences?

thanks

jack

 

[Alex Fenton]

Is there an easy way available in Ruby to compare two text files and
report the differences?

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/diff-lcs/

a

 

[Ryan Davis]

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/diff-lcs/

he said "easy"

 

[jackster the jackle]

he said "easy"

DOAH!

 

[Josef 'Jupp' Schugt]

Is there an easy way available in Ruby to compare two text files and
report the differences?

%x(diff file1 file2) # Unix/Linux

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt

 

[jackster the jackle]

%x(diff file1 file2) # Unix/Linux

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt

now that's what I call "easy"

 

[Mark Mcbride]

You can expand on this approach if you're outputting to an html view
too:
http://markmcb.com/2008/11/04/ruby-on-rails-diff-text-to-html-ins-and-del/

 

[Ziyad Saeed]

how about visual diff like the image
http://tiny.cc/fnbiz

 

[Nathan]

You can expand on this approach if you're outputting to an html view
too:
http://markmcb.com/2008/11/04/ruby-on-rails-diff-text-to-html-ins-and-del/

I found a good module for this a long time ago. I keep it on my github,
hoping some day to discover where it actually came from.

http://github.com/myobie/htmldiff/