I will install your gem and have a look at it. I started in september to
'port' MARC4J to Ruby. You can browse the code in RubyForge CVS, but I
haven't published anything yet. It is not yet packaged into modules and
there is no documentation.

Ed Summers wrote:

>On 12/2/05, Bas Peters <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>but I was just wondering how difficult it would
>>be to create a MARC parser in Ruby. Is there any interest in such a
>>library for Ruby?
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>I actually created a MARC parser in Ruby [1] a month or so ago which
>is available on RubyForge [2]. I'm definitely open to ways of
>improving it, or developers who want to help develop it.
>
>Since it's available on rubyforge, if you have gem installed you can.
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>    gem install marc
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>Once installed you can do stuff like:
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>    require 'marc'
>    reader = MARC::Reader.new('batch.dat')
>    for record in reader
>        puts record['245']
>    end
>
>The rdoc [3] is also available which hopefully shows common usage. One
>thing that I haven't implemented yet is MARC-8 -> UTF-8 conversion for
>going to XML...but that's in the works. I really like your marc4j
>package by the way.
>
>//Ed
>
>[1] http://www.textualize.com/ruby_marc
>[2] http://rubyforge.org/projects/marc/
>[3] http://www.textualize.com/rdoc/ruby-marc/
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