dvdprofiler_collection¶ ↑

dvdprofiler_collection is a companion to royw-imdb and royw-tmdb gems.

This is an interface for the exported Collection.xml from DVD Profiler 3.5.1.

Because the file size and parsing time of the Collection.xml can grow quite large, we extract only part of the meta-data then save into a Collection.yaml file which parses much faster. On my 3GHz quad core (alas with ruby only using a single core), xml parsing is about 1:50 for about 1000 titles.

The Collection model supports fuzzy matching of titles.

The DvdprofilerProfile model provides a clean interface to the profiles using first() and all() class methods. Searches can be by ISBN or title. Optionally a year may be provided to refine the search.

The actual meta-data is accessed via the dvd_hash attribute.

Examples:

profile = DvdprofilerProfile.first(:isbn => ‘786936735390’) profile = DvdprofilerProfile.first(:title => ‘Sabrina’, :year => ‘1995’) profiles = DvdprofilerProfile.all(:title => ‘Sabrina’)

puts profile.isbn puts profile.title

profile.dvd_hash.each {|k,v| puts “#{k} => #{v}”}

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