Re-writing and copying HTML files with Ruby Refactoring
I submitted a previous post on re-writing and copying HTML files with Ruby. I could not let that rather large and unruly script go as is and had to refactor, a.k.a. extract, much of the script code out into a ruby class. Here is the ruby class: 
class ParsingFile
	def createTop(value)
		topString = ""
		topString.concat("<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\">\n")
		topString.concat("<html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\">\n")
		topString.concat("<head>\n")
		topString.concat("<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\" />\n")
		topString.concat("<title>Bible Reading Guide</title>\n\n")
		topString.concat("<link href=\"dailyReading.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\">\n")
		topString.concat("</head>\n\n")
		topString.concat("<body>\n\n")
		topString.concat("<table>\n")
		topString.concat("<tr>\n")
		topString.concat("<td class=\"titleRowCell\">&nbsp;#{value}&nbsp;</td>\n")
		topString.concat("<td class=\"titleRowVerse\">&nbsp;Passage&nbsp;</td>\n")
		topString.concat("</tr>\n")
		
		return topString	
	end
	
	def createContent(line, lineNum, parseString)		
		
		htmlLine = ""
		
		if lineNum.modulo(2) == 0
			htmlLine.concat("<tr class=\"alternateRow\">")
		else
			htmlLine.concat("<tr>")
		end
		
		htmlLine.concat("<td class=\"dayCell\">Day #{lineNum}</td>")
		htmlLine.concat("<td class=\"verseCell\">")
		
		if line.scan(";").length > 0
			#split the line, get the 2 seperate verses, then form the html
			verseArray = line.split(";")
			verseArray.each {|seperateVerse|
				
				p = seperateVerse.index(parseString)
				p = p + parseString.length
				i = seperateVerse.index("')")
				e = i - p
				verse = seperateVerse.slice(p, e)
				
				htmlLine.concat("<a href=\"http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=ESV&passage=#{verse}\" target=\"_blank\">")
				htmlLine.concat("#{verse.gsub("+", " ")}</a>")
				
				htmlLine.concat(" ; ") if seperateVerse != verseArray.last
			}
			
			htmlLine.concat("</td>")
		else
			p = line.index(parseString)
			p = p + parseString.length
			i = line.index("')")
			e = i - p
			verse = line.slice(p, e)
			
			htmlLine.concat("<a href=\"http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=ESV&passage=#{verse}\" target=\"_blank\">")
			htmlLine.concat("#{verse.gsub("+", " ")}</a></td>")	
		end
		
		htmlLine.concat("</tr>\n")			
		
		return htmlLine
	
	end
	
	def createBottom
		bottomString = ""
		bottomString.concat("<tr>\n")
		bottomString.concat("<td class=\"titleRowCell\">&nbsp;</td>\n")
		bottomString.concat("<td class=\"titleRowVerse\">&nbsp;</td>\n")
		bottomString.concat("</tr>\n")
		bottomString.concat("</table>\n")
		bottomString.concat("</body>\n")
		bottomString.concat("</html>\n")
		
		return bottomString
	end
end
Here is the refactored script that is much cleaner and, in my view, easier to follow. 
origindir = "C:/pathToFile/"

fileNames = {
	"1" => "January",
	"2" => "February",
	"3" => "March",
	"4" => "April",
	"5" => "May",
	"6" => "June",
	"7" => "July",
	"8" => "August",
	"9" => "September",
	"10" => "October",
	"11" => "November",
	"12" => "December"
}

fileNames.each {|key, value|

	f = File.new("#{origindir}#{key}.txt", "w+")
	
	aFile = File.new("#{key}.html")
	
	#make sure you have the ParsingFile class	
	require 'ParsingFile.rb'
	#instantiate the ParsingFile object
	pf = ParsingFile.new()
	
	#start of the html file markup
	#call createTop here
	f.write(pf.createTop(value))
    
	lineNum = 1
	s = "passage="
	
	aFile.each_line {|line|
		if line.scan(/#{s}/).length > 0
			f.write(pf.createContent(line, lineNum, s))
			lineNum += 1
		end
	}
	
	#end of the html file markup
	f.write(pf.createBottom())

}

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