Ruby script to rebuild a directory structure

[Emmek On rails]

I have the following problem to solve.

I have some logo images in the following directory structure:

/users/a/adam/logos/jdkajsdns.jpg
/users/a/alan/logos/skdjaksxa.jpg
(...)
/users/b/bob(...)
(...)
etc.
(there are also other directories and files in the structure and some
directories are empty; but I'd like to extract just the "branch" with
logo pictures)

Names of directories like "adam", "alan" are users logins in the
database. I need to transform that structure into something like this:

/logos/756/jdkajsdns.jpg
/logos/815/skdjaksxa.jpg
etc.

where 756 is the id of the user 'adam' and the 815 is the id of the user
'alan', etc.

So:
1) It could be possible to bind logins and ids by generating a text file
with pairs of these values from db and to write a script that transforms
the structure using such file. How should the proper ruby script look
like?
2) Is it possible to use script/console in Rails and solve the problem
just inside it?

 

[F. Senault]

Le Wed, 1 Apr 2009 16:48:24 -0500, Emmek On rails a écrit :

Names of directories like "adam", "alan" are users logins in the
database. I need to transform that structure into something like this:

/logos/756/jdkajsdns.jpg
/logos/815/skdjaksxa.jpg
etc. /.../
2) Is it possible to use script/console in Rails and solve the problem
just inside it?

Yeps. Something like (completely untested) :

require "fileutils"
include FileUtils

Users.findall).each do |u|
mkdir "/logos/#{u.id}"
cp_r "/users/#{u.login[0..0]}/#{u.login}/logos/.", "/logos/#{u.id}"
end

You'll find what you're looking for in the FileUtils module :

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/fileutils/rdoc/index.html

Fred

 

[Emmek On rails]

Users.findall).each do |u|

mkdir "/logos/#{u.id}"
cp_r "/users/#{u.login[0..0]}/#{u.login}/logos/.", "/logos/#{u.id}"
end

Thanx for reply. It almost works but... what if a particular user does
not have logo image or even he doesn't have path like above? I supposed
there should be Dir.glob with "empty?" used somewhere in the code.

I wrote something like this:

require "fileutils"
include FileUtils

User.findall,:limit=>'20').each do |u|
mkdir "public/uploaded/logos/#{u.id}"
cp_r "public/uploaded/users/#{u.login[0..0]}/#{u.login}/logo/.",
"public/uploaded/logos/#{u.id}" unless
Dir.glob("public/uploaded/users/#{u.login[0..0]}/#{u.login}/logo").empty?
end

Ugly but it seems to be working.

I have another question: how to force this script to copy only jpg, png
and gif files from the "logo" directory? (there are also some mouldy php
files I don't need ANYMORE)

 

[F. Senault]

Le Thu, 2 Apr 2009 06:20:56 -0500, Emmek On rails a écrit :

I have another question: how to force this script to copy only jpg, png
and gif files from the "logo" directory? (there are also some mouldy php
files I don't need ANYMORE)

Even easier : iterate over Dir.glob("path/to/orig/**/*.{jpg,png,gif}").
(Add the File::FNM_CASEFOLD flag as a parameter if you have mixed case.)

Fred

 

[Emmek on Rails]

Even easier : iterate over Dir.glob("path/to/orig/**/*.{jpg,png,gif}").
(Add the File::FNM_CASEFOLD flag as a parameter if you have mixed case.)

Fred

Sorry, what do You exactly mean? I want to copy just images from
original location. I'm trying to do something with

cp_r "public/uploaded/users/#{u.login[0..0]}/#{u.login}/logo/."

but I don't know what to put at the end of this path to copy just jpgs,
gifs and pngs.

 

[F. Senault]

Le Thu, 2 Apr 2009 13:22:01 -0500, Emmek on Rails a écrit :

Sorry, what do You exactly mean? I want to copy just images from
original location. I'm trying to do something with

cp_r "public/uploaded/users/#{u.login[0..0]}/#{u.login}/logo/."

but I don't know what to put at the end of this path to copy just jpgs,
gifs and pngs.

It won't work that way ; cp_r copies the whole directories. You need to
use Dir.glob or Find.find to select the files and then copy them one by
one.

Again, pretty much untested :

Dir.chdir("/public/uploaded/users/#{u.login[0..0]}/#{u.login}/logo") do
Dir.glob("**/*.{jpg,png,gif}").each do |f|
f2 = "/public/uploaded/logos/#{u.id}/#{f}"
mkdir_p File.dirname(f2)
cp_r f, f2
end
end

(You'll need at least to specify absolute paths if public isn't in the
root.)

Fred