README.rdoc in remote_table-1.2.2 vs README.rdoc in remote_table-1.2.3

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@@ -4,10 +4,17 @@ ==Real-life usage Used by http://data.brighterplanet.com and the data_miner gem (http://github.com/seamusabshere/data_miner) +==Requirements + +* POSIX operating system (not windows) +* curl, iconv, perl, cat, cut, tail, etc. accessible from /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin + +As this library matures, those should go away. + ==Example ?> t = RemoteTable.new 'http://www.fueleconomy.gov/FEG/epadata/98guide6.zip', 'filename' => '98guide6.csv' => #<RemoteTable:0x359da50 [...]> ?> t[0] @@ -133,9 +140,14 @@ [ 'header2', 10, { :type => :string } ], [ 'spacer', 1 ], [ 'header3', 10, { :type => :string } ], [ 'spacer', 1 ], [ 'header1', 10, { :type => :string } ]] + +==Helpful hints + +* ASCII-8BIT is the same as BINARY +* ISO-8859-1 is the same as Latin1 ==Custom parsers See the test file and also data_miner examples of custom parsers.