added script to convert old news items to markdown

1 files changed, 54 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/script/converter.rb b/script/converter.rb
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+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+
+require 'reverse_markdown'
+
+class OldNewsItem
+
+  RE_TITLE = /\#{3}(.*)/
+  RE_DATE  = /(\d+-\d+-\d+).*/
+
+  attr_reader :html, :markdown
+
+  def initialize(filename)
+    @filename = filename
+    @html = File.read(@filename)
+  end
+
+  def self.convert(filename)
+    new(filename).converted
+  end
+
+  def date
+    @filename[RE_DATE,1]
+  end
+
+  def markdown
+    @markdown ||= ReverseMarkdown.convert(@html)
+  end
+
+  def title
+    markdown[RE_TITLE,1].lstrip
+  end
+
+  def body
+    markdown.gsub(RE_TITLE,'').lstrip
+  end
+
+  def frontmatter
+    <<-EOS
+---
+title: "#{title}"
+date: #{date}
+---
+    EOS
+  end
+
+  def converted
+    frontmatter << body
+  end
+
+end
+
+if __FILE__ == $0
+  puts OldNewsItem.convert(ARGV.shift)
+end