Load a file and write it into a string declaration in your language of choice

writestrings.rb

#!/bin/usr/ruby
#reads a file and parses into a single string declaration in language of choice
#another little snippet to make my job easier when writing lots of code
#programmed by michael ward
# [email protected] | gists.github.com/michaelfward


# ***************************************
#              example scrips
#  with readfiles 
#   | writefiles [file with paths] [file to write*]
#   | makestring [file to write* (actually is read, but same as above)] [lang] 
#****************************************


def readFile(path)
  str = File.read(path).gsub("\n", '\n')
  str = str.gsub('"', '\"')
  str
end

def usage
  puts "makestring [file to read] [language output]"
  exit
end

langs = {"rb"=>"str =", "js" => "var str =", "c"=> "char str[] ="}

usage unless ARGV.length == 2
lang = ARGV[1]
path = ARGV[0]
str = readFile(path)
if langs[lang] == nil
  if lang == "c++" || lang == "cpp" || lang == "c#"
    puts "#{lang[c]}\"#{str}\""
  else
    puts "unrecognized language found. supported languages are"
    langs.each_key {|k| puts "   #{k}"}
    exit
  end
else
  puts "#{langs[lang]}\" #{str}\""
end