I've created a tool to let others build Rulesets by creating two CSV files uses Excel or any text editor. It is called armycalc-twr-builder and the code is located on GitHub at the following url: [github.com]

It is working 100% right now as far as I can tell. I am personally working on WH40K 5E Space Wolves as a sample. If others would like to try their hand at making an army, checkout the documentation on GitHub. You'll need to create a simple config file and two CSVs. If you don't know how to run the run script, I can do that for you.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/15/2010 12:25AM by semmons99.

Hi Shane!

What you are doing for an example is exactly what I need. I got the stuff from github, but when I try and run rake commands on my Snow Leopard mac I am getting an error:

$ rake build CONFIG=example/wh40k-5e-space-wolves.yaml
(in /Users/ken/Desktop/semmons99-armycalc-twr-builder-329aabb)
rm -r tmp
rm -r twr
script/generate.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load -- haml (LoadError)
from script/generate.rb:1
rake aborted!
Command failed with status (1): [ruby script/generate.rb example/wh40k-5e-s...]
/Users/ken/Desktop/semmons99-armycalc-twr-builder-329aabb/rakefile:9
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

What am I doing wrong? I unfortunately have no experience with Ruby. My programming experience ends with FORTRAN...

There's two required libraries (ruby calls them gems) that you need to install. Run the following commands and you should be all set.

gem install haml
gem install archive-tar-minitar

Thanks! Finally got it working. Also had to add require 'rubygems' to the scripts.

Actually, the easiest way to avoid that is to set an environment variables.

set RUBYOPT=-rubygems

I found a couple things with your script:

It requires the 'fastercsv' gem.
rake generate would work, but rake build would not until I added require 'yaml' to build.rb

Thanks for catching these. I'll try and fix them Monday morning when I get back to my computer.

I forked your project on github and have committed several changes:
- Updates to README
- Bugfix I reported above
- Added support for unit images

Great! I've applied your changes. If you would like to include your Necrons in the project, feel free to add them and I'll pull in your changes again.

Updates today:
Refactored directory structure to organize data file projects
TML files are now output at the same path as the config file.
Added revision, validator, hiddenattrs properties to config & updated info.haml and units.haml to use them

hiddenattrs are additional fields in the units.xml that do not display on the stat line

Started work on Necron army validation rules.

I added you as a contributor to the project on Github so that you can commit directly to it.

Maybe these WFB8 informations could be add to CVS files

AB3
[www.datafilecentral.com]

AB2
[games.groups.yahoo.com]

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I don't understand how use the file...
I download Ruby... And after...

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I must admit that I don't understand how to make those things work correctly ...
I've downloaded ruby and installed it. I've also downloaded haml, archive-tar-minitar and fastercsv and use the install command under ruby but the "add RUBYOPT" doesn't work and I don't know why ...

Honestly, without programming knowledge, my ruleset creator is probably too hard. I'm trying to work on something to make it easier. But currently, it's just not practical.