takes palm docs of the dhammapada and the vacana and generates a daily reading

daily.rb

#takes palm docs of the buddhists texts dhammapada and the vacana and
#generates a daily reading

#get the Palm docsbooks buddhavacana.pdb and dhammapada.pdb here
#http://www.buddhavacana.net/index.php?d=/download/&f=books

# need the palm gem and chronic
require 'rubygems'
require 'palm'
require 'chronic'

class ReadForToday
  #attr_reader :vacana, :dhamma
  def initialize(date, linelen)
    @datestr=date

    #just look in the current run dir, yes I'm lame.
    @vacana=dumprecord(Palm::PDB.new('buddhavacana.pdb'))
    @dhamma=dumprecord(Palm::PDB.new('dhammapada.pdb'))
    @linelen=linelen

  end
  private
    #wrap text stolen form here
    #http://blog.macromates.com/2006/wrapping-text-with-regular-expressions/
    def wrap_text(txt, col = @linelen)
      txt.gsub(/(.{1,#{col}})( +|$\n?)|(.{1,#{col}})/,"\\1\\3\n")
    end

    def dumprecord(pdb)
      #get the record for day of year
      record=pdb.data[Chronic.parse(@datestr).yday-1]
      record.data.gsub!(/\c@/,"")
    end

    def sep
      sep=""
      @linelen.times {|i| sep+="*"}
      sep+="\n"
    end

    def format(raw,header)
      header+="\n"
      record=wrap_text(sep+header+raw.chomp)+"\n"
    end

  public
    def vacana_print
      format(@vacana,"Buddha Vacana")
    end

    def dhamma_print
      format(@dhamma, "Dhammapada")
    end

end

if __FILE__ == $0
  myread= ReadForToday.new("today",72)
  puts myread.vacana_print
  puts myread.dhamma_print
end