Zendesk XML Splitter

zendesk_xml_splitter.rb

require 'nokogiri' # gem install nokogiri
require 'ruby-cheerio' # gem install ruby-cheerio

#Specify the file name to be chunked here
xml_file = "tickets.xml";

#No of chunks to be made
no_of_chunks = 4

doc = Nokogiri::XML(File.open(xml_file));
tickets = doc.xpath("//ticket")
report_date = doc.xpath("//tickets/@report_date").text
p "No of tickets being chunked: #{tickets.length}"

no_of_nodes_per_file = tickets.length/no_of_chunks + tickets.length%no_of_chunks;

new_chunk_flag = 0
chunk_number = 0
chunk_file_name = "tickets_#{chunk_number}.xml"
chunk_file = open(chunk_file_name, 'w')

chunk_file.write("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><tickets report_date=\"#{report_date}\">");
tickets.each_with_index do |ticket|
	if( new_chunk_flag == no_of_nodes_per_file)
		chunk_file.write('</tickets>')
		chunk_number = chunk_number+1;
		chunk_file_name = "tickets_#{chunk_number}.xml"
		chunk_file = open(chunk_file_name, 'w')
		chunk_file.write("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><tickets report_date=\"#{report_date}\">");
		new_chunk_flag = 0
	end
		p ticket.to_s
		p chunk_file_name
		chunk_file.write(ticket.to_s)
		new_chunk_flag = new_chunk_flag+1
end

chunk_file.write('</tickets>');