Movable Erb¶ ↑

by Joshua Davey

github.com/jgdavey/movable_erb

A simple CSV to MTImport conversion utility. Useful for mapping contacts data into individual entries in Movable Type.

MTImport format is simple enough that most blogging platforms can import it, so this utility could ease the pain of moving some older data structure in CSV format into a blog platform.

• fastercsv gem

[sudo] gem install jgdavey-movable_erb

MovableErb uses the header names in the first row of the CSV file to map to each of the mtimport’s values: Title, Body, Extended, Category, and Tags.

So, a CSV file that looks like:

Title,Body,Extended
Title of a Post,Body content (can include html, etc),Extended content

will become:

TITLE: Title of a Post
-----
BODY:

Body content (can include html, etc)

-----
EXTENDED:

Extended content

You can even specify more than one header column as Title, Body, etc., and they will be combined into one entity, joined by:

• a comma for one-line attributes (title, author), or

• a newline for multi-line (Body, Extended)

After installing the gem, just run

movable_erb [options] yourfile.csv

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