atownley / tecode-ruby

Core utility classes and utilities initially based on the tecode repositories in Java, C# and Python

TECode the Ruby Version

This repository is now home to the official ruby version of the TECode library originally developed in Java, C# and Python and hosted on Sourceforge from 2003 until all this code was migrated to GitHub in 2016.

Utilities of Note

distbundle - this utility is used to package a set of files for distribution as a zip file.

jspkg - this utility is based on distbundle and allows the packaging of javascript and css files, optionally minimized.

Command-line Interfaces

The original command line argument parsing developed in the Java version has been implemented, more-or-less, in Ruby, and is in heavy, daily production use in a number of projects. The Ruby version isn't quite as sophisticated as the Java version, but it does the job.

Examples on how this is done are provided in the sample/feather.rb file.

Configuration Files

Ruby implementations for managing INI and Java Properties files are provided in the tecode/io directory.

Table Models

A set of object-based table models, roughly based on the Java TableModel API is provided in the tecode/table directory. These were used initially during the development of some GTK+/GNOME applications on Linux years ago, but they are toolkit independent.

Thread/Task Management

There are some simple classes for managing threads, events and tasks. Again, these were originally developed for the GTK+/GNOME desktop appliations, but they are generic and have no toolkit dependencies.

XML Manipulation/Mapping

The libary also includes some classes for more easily mapping XML into in a pretty flexibile way. It was originally inspired by the HappyMapper library, but I needed better support for namespaces and more flexible mappings based on XPath expressions.