VDF

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VDF is a gem to convert Valve's KeyValue format to Ruby hashes and back, based on the excellent node-steam/vdf

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'vdf'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install vdf

Usage

Parsing a VDF file is simple:

require "vdf"

# Load VDF file into a string
vdf_contents = File.read("filename.vdf")

# Parse it
parsed = VDF.parse(vdf_contents)

# Pretty-print the result
p parsed

Creating one is too:

require "vdf"

# Set up hash to generate a VDF from
object = {
    "string" => "string",
    "false" => false,
    "true" => true,
    "number" => 1234,
    "float" => 12.34,
    "null" => nil,
    "nested" => {
        "string" => "string",
        "deep" => {
            "string" => "string"
        }
    }
}

# Generate a VDF string and output it
puts VDF.generate(object)

If you're dealing with parsing large files, you should avoid loading them into memory completely. This library supports parsing a VDF file from a File object like this:

require "vdf"

# Open the file in read mode and parse it.
parsed = File.open("filename.vdf", "r") do |file|
    VDF.parse(file)
end

# Pretty-print the result
p parsed

Performance comparison

Small VDF File

      user       system     total     real
vdf    0.015000   0.000000   0.015000 (  0.013349)
vdf4r  0.391000   0.000000   0.391000 (  0.389993)

Large VDF File (4MB - CS:GO's items_game.txt)

      user       system    total      real
vdf    1.312000   0.031000   1.343000 (  1.348015)
vdf4r 53.422000   0.016000  53.438000 ( 54.020029)

Compared to the vdf4r gem using this script.

Download

The latest version of this library can be downloaded at

Online Documentation should be located at

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/sapphyrus/vdf.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.