Ruby is just so beautiful

took about 90 minutes, since I had to learn about rubyzip:

=begin
# Simple script to retrieve all properties files, package them in the target directory,
# and add a comment to the top and bottom informing developers #to place entries at the bottom
# requires rubyzip (http://rubyzip.sourceforge.net/)
=end

require 'date'
require 'zip/zip'

class Properties_Packager

  DECORATION = "#============================================="

  HEADER_COMMENT =
    DECORATION +
    "\n#Please place all new additions at the bottom of the file\n" +
    DECORATION

  FOOTER_COMMENT =
    DECORATION +
    "\n#Packaged and processed on " + (Time.now.to_s ) + ". Please place all new entries after this section\n" +
    DECORATION

  @prop_files
  attr_reader :prop_files, :HEADER_COMMENT

  def initialize
    @prop_files = []
    @header_comment
  end

  private
  def legit_file file
    ! (file.index("env.") != nil ||
       file.index("junit") != nil ||
       file.index("project.") != nil ||
       file.index("#") != nil)
  end


  public
  def obtain_properties_files(directory)
    current_dir = Dir.open(directory)

    for file in current_dir
      next if(file == "." ||
              file==".." ||
              file=="target")
     
      path = current_dir.path + "/" + file

      if File.directory?(path)
        obtain_properties_files(path)
      else
        if (legit_file file and file.index("properties") != nil)
             puts "Adding " + path
             @prop_files << path
        end
      end
      @prop_files
    end
    @prop_files
  end
 
  def add_comments files
    files.each do |file|
      contents_buffer = []
      current_lines = IO.readlines(file.to_s)
     
      possible_header = current_lines[0]

      if(! possible_header.strip.eql? DECORATION)

        contents_buffer << HEADER_COMMENT
      end

      contents_buffer << IO.readlines(file.to_s).to_s
      contents_buffer << FOOTER_COMMENT

      open_file = File.open(file,"r+")
      open_file.puts(contents_buffer)
      open_file.close
    end
  end

   def put_files_in_zip files, out_file_name

    #if the file exists, erase it
    if File.exists?(out_file_name)
      File.delete(out_file_name)
      puts "DELETED old zip file"
    end

    zipfile = Zip::ZipFile.new out_file_name, true
    files.each do |file|
      puts "zipping " + file.to_s
      zipfile.add file, file.to_s
    end
    zipfile.close

  end
end

zip_file = 'target/packaged_properties.zip'

packager = Properties_Packager.new
props = packager.obtain_properties_files('src/webapp')
packager.add_comments props
packager.put_files_in_zip props, zip_file

puts "Properties package ready for delivery #{zip_file}"