Hi Amir,
Cool website you’ve got there!
Anw,
I came across your blog and website, seeing that you’ve got some experience in programming.
So I thought you’d be able to help me with a script using Ruby which I have been working on these few wks..

Basically, I need to work on a script to archive files, using Ruby to read a config file(where Robocopy commands are listed inside). But the thing is I need to write whatever is happening into a log file for any reference if neccessary.. here’s an example of my code..

if File.exists?( “test.cfg” ) then

f = File.new( "test.cfg", "r" )

run_seq=0

f.each do |l|

l.chomp!

if ( l  "" or l =~ /^[t]*#.*$/ )
# it's a blank line or starts with '#'
next
end # if

@commands[l] = run_seq

run_seq+=1

end # each

# Lets close the file

f.close()

else
raise "config file does not exist."
return 1
end # if

Take back-up copy for potential use later on

@bck_up_commands = @commands.dup

Loop through commands untill all are completed.

commands_to_run = true

while ( commands_to_run )

    # Assume all commands run
    commands_to_run = false

    if ( $run_time  b[1] }.each do | run_command, status |

Only run commands that have not been successful.

    if status != $ran then

    ret = 0

    #puts "#{run_command}n"
    system run_command
    ret = $?

if successful then mark as ‘ran’

    if ( ret  0 )
puts “#{run_command}  COMPLETEDn”
                    @commands[run_command]= $ran
else
                    puts “#{run_command}  HAS NOT COMPLETEDn”
                end # if

end # if

end # do

Initialise toruncommand hash

@toruncommands = {}

Search hash for commnads to run

@commands.sort { |a,b| a[1] b[1] }.each do | run_command, status |

if status != $ran then
                commands_to_run = true

                @to_run_commands[run_command] = status

end # if

end # do

if ( @to_run_commands.size >= 1 )

raise “All or some commands have not completed in command file”

return 2
end

end # if

$run_time+= $defaultPollIntervalSec
sleep $defaultPollIntervalSec

end # while

I’m so sorry that they alignment is abit messed up, but I really need some desperate help here.. So any help is much appreciated. Do drop me an email for your reply if possible eh? Thanks.

By Clement on Apr 1, 2008