GCAT5.0 released

Rails/app/helpers/application_helper.rb

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+#
+# Copyright 2012 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.
+# Contributors: Jason Shao, James McCurdy, Enhai Xie, Adam G.W. Halstead,
+# Michael H. Whitney, Nathan DiPiazza, Trey K. Sato and Yury V. Bukhman
+#
+# This file is part of GCAT.
+#
+# GCAT is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# GCAT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+# along with GCAT.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+module ApplicationHelper
+
+  def relative_path(fullpath)
+    fullpath.to_s.gsub(Rails.root.to_s + "/public","")
+  end
+
+  #find all directories in generatedFiles/ and remove
+  #any that are more than a day old
+  def remove_old_files(path)
+  	cur_date = extract_date(path)
+  	dirs = Dir.glob(Rails.root + "public/generatedFiles/*") + Dir.glob(Rails.root + "public/uploadedFiles/*")
+  	dirs.compact.each do |dir|
+  		date = extract_date(dir)
+  		if(date != cur_date)
+        puts "Removing: " + dir #log deletions
+  			%x[ rm -rf #{dir} ]
+	    end
+	  end
+  end
+
+  private
+
+    def extract_date(path)
+  	  part = "Files/"
+  	  segment = path.partition(part).last
+  	  date = segment.split(/-[0-9]+/).first
+  	  date.to_i
+    end
+
+
+end