What is the easiest way to dump a selection of data for someone else to import? If XML, what is the cleanest way to accomplish this?
As a hobby, I wrote a workout logging program that now has about 2000 users. From time to time, someone asks me to export their workout records to another application. I finally decided to set up an XML resource for this. But I don't want to put a lot of effort into it.
Right now, my controller looks like this:
def person_workouts_xml @person = Person.find(params[:id]) @workouts = @person.workouts end
My .builder template looks like this:
xml.instruct! :xml, :version=>"1.0" xml.workouts{ for workout in @workouts xml.workout(workout.to_xml) end }
I also tried the builder template like this:
xml.workouts(@workouts.to_xml)
Both methods work, but the output is rather ugly, and I doubt others will want to slog through it. Should I be using to_xml in combination with the builder this way? Is there a better, cleaner, simpler way?