Serialisable
Simple xml to object deserialisation for Ruby, built on top of Nokogiri (at the moment).
This is still in the hacky stage, so you probably shouldn't use it...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<plays>
<play>
<track>505</track>
<artist>Arctic Monkeys</artist>
<time>2013-10-12T15:34:50Z</time>
</play>
<play>
<track>Windowlicker</track>
<artist>Aphex Twin</artist>
<time>2013-10-12T15:37:43Z</time>
</play>
</plays>require 'serialisable'
require 'time'
class Play
extend Serialisable
root 'play'
element :track, 'track'
element :artist, 'artist'
element :time, 'time', Time # an object responding to #parse
end
class Plays
extend Serialisable
root 'plays'
elements :plays, Play # a Serialisable object
end
plays = Plays.deserialise(File.read('plays.xml')).plays