working dumb conversion

.gitignore

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+*.gem
+*.rbc
+.bundle
+.config
+.yardoc
+Gemfile.lock
+InstalledFiles
+_yardoc
+coverage
+doc/
+lib/bundler/man
+pkg
+rdoc
+spec/reports
+test/tmp
+test/version_tmp
+tmp

Gemfile

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+source 'https://rubygems.org'
+
+gemspec

LICENSE.txt

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+Copyright (c) 2012 Blackacre Labs
+
+MIT License
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

README.md

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+# SCDBtoYAML
+
+Convert [Supreme Court Data Base](http://scdb.wustl.edu) Comma-Separated Value (CSV) files into [YAML](http://www.yaml.org)
+
+## Usage
+
+Install the gem in the usual way:
+
+    $ gem install SCDBtoYAML
+
+The gem will install a script for command line use:
+
+    $ SCDBtoYAML help
+
+## Contributing
+
+1. Fork it
+2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)
+3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`)
+4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)
+5. Create new Pull Request

Rakefile

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+require "bundler/gem_tasks"

SCDBtoYAML.gemspec

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+# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
+lib = File.expand_path('../lib', __FILE__)
+$LOAD_PATH.unshift(lib) unless $LOAD_PATH.include?(lib)
+require 'SCDBtoYAML/version'
+
+Gem::Specification.new do |gem|
+  gem.name          = "SCDBtoYAML"
+  gem.version       = SCDBtoYAML::VERSION
+  gem.authors       = ["Kyle Mitchell"]
+  gem.email         = ["[email protected]"]
+  gem.description   = %q{Convert SCDB CSV files to YAML}
+  gem.summary       = %q{Convert Supreme Court Database data files in CSV format into human-readable YAML files}
+  gem.homepage      = "http://www.github.com/BlackacreLabs/scdbtoyaml"
+
+  gem.files         = `git ls-files`.split($/)
+  gem.executables   = gem.files.grep(%r{^bin/}).map{ |f| File.basename(f) }
+  gem.test_files    = gem.files.grep(%r{^(test|spec|features)/})
+  gem.require_paths = ["lib"]
+
+  gem.add_dependency 'thor', '~> 0.16.0'
+end

bin/SCDBtoYAML

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+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+
+require 'SCDBtoYAML'
+
+SCDBtoYAML::CLI.start(ARGV)

lib/SCDBtoYAML.rb

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+require "SCDBtoYAML/version"
+require "SCDBtoYAML/cli"
+require "SCDBtoYAML/converter"
+
+module SCDBtoYAML
+end

lib/SCDBtoYAML/cli.rb

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+require 'thor'
+
+module SCDBtoYAML 
+  class CLI < Thor
+    default_task :convert
+    desc "convert", "Convert a Supreme Court Database CSV file to YAML"
+    option :in, :aliases => '-i', :required => true, :banner => 'input file'
+    option :out, :aliases => '-o', :required => true, :banner => 'output'
+    def convert()
+      hashes = Converter.convert_file(options[:in])
+      File.open(options[:out], 'wb') {|f| f.write(hashes.to_yaml) }
+    end
+  end
+end

lib/SCDBtoYAML/converter.rb

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+require 'csv'
+
+module SCDBtoYAML
+  class Converter
+    # convert a UTF-8 CSV string into yaml
+    # applying the SCDB codebook
+    def self.convert(text)
+      hashes = CSV.parse(
+        text,
+        :headers => true, # first row is header
+        :converters => :all # detect numbers and dates
+      ).map{|x| post_process(x.to_hash) }
+    end
+
+    # deal with the encoding of SCDB CSV files
+    def self.convert_file(file)
+      # There are \xA7 ISO-8859 section symbols
+      c = File.open(file, 'r:iso-8859-1').read.encode('utf-8')
+      Converter.convert(c)
+    end
+
+    # TODO: apply the codebook
+    def self.post_process(hashes)
+      hashes
+    end
+  end
+end

lib/SCDBtoYAML/version.rb

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+module SCDBtoYAML
+  VERSION = "0.0.1"
+end