BagIt (for ruby)

Based on the BagItspec v0.96.

Supported Features:

• bag compiling
• manifest & tagmanifest generation
• generation of tag files bag-info.txt and bagit.txt
• fetching remote files (fetch.txt)
• bag validation

Installation

% gem install bagit validatable

The rubyforge gem is deprecated.

Example: making a bag

require 'bagit'

# make a new bag at base_path
bag = BagIt::Bag.new base_path

# make a new file
bag.add_file("samplefile") do |io|
  io.puts "Hello Bag!"
end

# generate the manifest and tagmanifest files
bag.manifest!

Example: validating an existing bag

bag = BagIt::Bag.new existing_base_path

if bag.valid?
  puts "#{existing_base_path} is valid"
else
  puts "#{existing_base_path} is not valid"
end

TODO

• command line tools for common tasks
• better holy bag (fetch.txt) generation
• better error reporting.
• poor mans' checksum

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