## DataShift Provides tools to shift data between Ruby, external applications, files and ActiveRecord. Specific loaders and command line tasks for Spree E-Commerce. Wiki taking shape with more info here : **https://github.com/autotelik/datashift/wiki** ### Features Import and Export ActiveRecord models through .xls or CSV files, including all associations and setting configurable defaults or over rides. Generate a sample template with headers only. Export template and populate with model data Create, parse and use Excel/OpenOffice (.xls) documents dynamically from Ruby. Easily extendable Loader functionality to deal with non trivial import cases, such as complex association lookups. High level rake and thor command line tasks for import/export provided. Specific loaders and command line tasks provided out the box for **Spree E-Commerce**, enabling import/export of Product data including creating Variants with different count on hands and all associations including Properties/Taxons/OptionTypes and Images. Loaders can be configured via YAML with over ride values, default values and mandatory column settings. Many example Spreadsheets/CSV files in spec/fixtures, fully documented with comments for each column. ## Installation Add gem 'datashift' to your Gemfile/bundle, or install the latest gem as usual : gem install datashift To use : gem 'datashift' require 'datashift' To pull the tasks in, add this call to your Rakefile : ```ruby DataShift::load_tasks``` To keep the availability to only development mode use ```ruby DataShift::load_tasks if(Rails.env.development?)``` To use the Thor command line applications : Create a high level .thor file - e.g mysite.thor - in your applications root directory Edit the file and add the following to pull in the thor commands : ```ruby require 'thor' require 'datashift' DataShift::load_commands ``` To check the available tasks run bundle exec rake -T datashift and/or bundle exc thor list datashift To get usage information use thor help , for example bundle exec thor help datashift:generate:excel N.B - To use the Excel loader, OLE and Excel are NOT required, however JRuby is required, since it uses Java's Apache POI under the hood to process .xls files. Guards are provided, and used internally, for mixed Ruby setups. Can be used like : if(DataShift::Guards::jruby? ) ..do something with Excel else ..do something with CSV end ## Active Record - Import/Export Provides high level rake tasks for importing data via ActiveRecord models into a DB, from various sources, currently csv or .xls files (Excel/Open Office) N.B This is under active development, moving to thor tasks so maybe out of date Please try rake -T and thor list to get upto date command lines bundle exec rake datashift:import:csv model=BlogPost input=BlogPostImport.csv verbose=true jruby -S rake datashift:import:excel model=BlogPost input=BlogPostImport.xls verbose=true Provides high level rake tasks for exporting data to various sources, currently .xls files (Excel/Open Office) jruby -S rake datashift:export:excel model=BlogPost result=BlogExport.xls The library can be easily extended with Loaders to deal with non trivial cases, for example when multiple lookups required to find right association. Spree loaders are an example, these illustrate over riding processing for specific columns with complicated lookup requirements. Spree is the prime Open Source e-commerce project for Rails, and the specific loaders and tasks support loading Spree Products, and associated data such as Variants, OptionTypes, Properties and Images. ## Template Generation and Export Template generation tasks can be used to export a model's definition as column headings to CSV or .xls. These can be provided to developers or business users, as a template for data collection and then loading. Export tasks can be used to export of a model's definition and any existing data stored in the database. This data can be exported directly to CSV or Excel/OpenOffice spreadsheets. ## Example Spreadsheets A number of example Spreadsheets with headers and comments, can be found in the spec/fixtures directory. Extensive Spree samples - including .xls and csv versions for simple Products or complex Products with multiple taxons, variants properties etc - can be found in the spec/fixtures/spree subdirectory. Column headings contain comments with full descriptions and instructions on syntax. ## Features - *High level wrappers around applications including Excel and Word Quickly and easily access common enterprise applications through Ruby Wrapper around MS Excel File format, acheived via Apache POI under JRuby, so not restricted to Windows and Excel does not need to be installed. The required POI jars are already included. - *Direct Excel export* Excel/OpenOffice spreadsheets are heavily used in many sectors, so direct support makes it easier and quicker to migrate your client's data into a Rails/ActiveRecord project. No need to save to CSV or map to YAML. - *Semi-Smart Name Lookup* Includes helper classes that find and store details of all possible associations on an AR class. Given a user supplied name, attempts to find the requested association. Example usage, load from a file or spreadsheet where the column names are only an approximation of the actual associations, so given 'Product Properties' heading, finds real association 'product_properties' to send or call on the AR object - *Associations* Can handle 'belongs_to, 'has_many' and 'has_one' associations, including assignment of multiple objects via either multiple columns, or via specially delimited entry in a single (column). See Details section. Supports delegated attributes. - *Rake Tasks* High level Rake tasks are provided, only required to supply model class, and file location : jruby -S rake datashift:import:excel model=MusicTrack input=MyTrackListing.xls - *Spree Rake Tasks* Spree's product associations are non trivial so specific Rake tasks are also provided for loading Spree Producta with all associations and Image loading. jruby -S rake datashift:spree:products input=C:\MyProducts.xls - *Seamless Spree Image loading can be achieved by ensuring SKU or class Name features in Image filename. Lookup is performed either via the SKU being prepended to the image name, or by the image name being equal to the **name attribute** of the klass in question. Images can be attached to any class defined with a suitable association. The class to use can be configured in rake task via parameter klass=Xyz. In the Spree tasks, this defaults to Product, so attempts to attach Image to a Product via Product SKU or Name. Image loading **does not** specifically require JRuby A report is generated in the current working directory detailing any Images in the paths that could not be matched with a Product. rake datashift:spree:images input=C:\images\product_images skip_if_no_assoc=true rake datashift:spree:images input=C:\images\taxon_icons skip_if_no_assoc=true klass=Taxon ## Import to Active Record ### Associations To perform a lookup for an associated model, the primary column(s) must be supplied, along with required select values for those columns. A single association column can contain multiple name/value sets, in string form : column:lookup_key_1, lookup_key_2,... So if our Project model has many Categories, we can supply a Category list, which is keyed on the column Category.reference with : |Categories| reference:category_001,category_002 During loading, a call to find_all_by_reference will be made, picking up the 2 categories with matching references, and our Project model will contain those two i.e project.categories = [category_002,category_003] ## TODO - Add direct Image loading to Spree i.e should be able to specify just path in a column .. "/images/red-tshirt.jpg" - Smart sorting of column processing order .... - Does not currently ensure mandatory columns (for valid?) processed first. - Look at implementing import/export API using something like https://github.com/ianwhite/orm_adapter rather than active record, so we can support additional ORMs - Create separate Spree extension to support import/export via the admin gui ## License Copyright:: (c) Autotelik Media Ltd 2011 Author :: Tom Statter Date :: Dec 2011 The 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. 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