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BagIt (for ruby)
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Based on the [BagItspec v0.96](https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/Curation/BagIt).

Supported Features:
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* bag compiling
* manifest & tagmanifest generation
* generation of tag files bag-info.txt and bagit.txt
* fetching remote files (fetch.txt)
* bag validation

Installation
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    % gem install bagit validatable
The rubyforge gem is deprecated.


Example: making a bag
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    require 'bagit'

    # make a new bag at base_path
    bag = BagIt::Bag.new base_path

    # make a new file
    bag.add_file("samplefile") do |io|
      io.puts "Hello Bag!"
    end

    # generate the manifest and tagmanifest files
    bag.manifest!

Example: validating an existing bag
-----------------------------------

    bag = BagIt::Bag.new existing_base_path

    if bag.valid?
      puts "#{existing_base_path} is valid"
    else
      puts "#{existing_base_path} is not valid"
    end

TODO
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* command line tools for common tasks
* better holy bag (fetch.txt) generation
* better error reporting.
* poor mans' checksum

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Copyright © 2009, [Francesco Lazzarino](mailto:[e-mail]).

Sponsored by [Florida Center for Library Automation](http://www.fcla.edu).

See LICENSE.txt for terms.

Version data entries

1 entries across 1 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
bagit-0.2.0	README.md