Is it possible to use `data_miner` on windows?

seamusabshere / data_miner

Download, unpack from a ZIP/TAR/GZ/BZ2 archive, parse, correct, convert units and import Google Spreadsheets, XLS, ODS, XML, CSV, HTML, etc. into your ActiveRecord models. Uses RemoteTable gem internally.

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Is it possible to use `data_miner` on windows? #25

Open towerhe opened 11 years ago

towerhe commented 11 years ago

I have tried to move data_miner to windows platform for days. I found that some gems only can be run on linux, such as posix_spawn, unix_utils, roo, and so on.

@seamusabshere Is there a way to achieve this issue? Please give me some lights.

seamusabshere commented 11 years ago

@towerhe it's tough - we would have to start with https://github.com/seamusabshere/unix_utils

perhaps we can find a good example of another ruby library that successfully calls binaries on jruby AND windows.

towerhe commented 11 years ago

I do think so and I am not sure there is a way to spawn processes like posix_spawn on windows. I am trying to implement an adapter for all the utilities.