X12

Current version has been upgraded to run under ruby version >= 1.9.1

Changes welcome, especially new document types or better tests.

License

This library 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 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library 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 this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'pd_x12'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install pd_x12

Documentation

Wiki Page: https://github.com/mjpete3/x12/wiki

Major deficiencies

Validation is not implemented.
Field types are ignored.
No access methods for composites’ fields.

Acknowledgments

The authors of the project were inspired by the following works:

* The Perl X12 parser by Prasad Poruporuthan, search.cpan.org/~prasad/X12-0.09/lib/X12/Parser.pm
* The Ruby port of the above by Chris Parker, rubyforge.org/projects/x12-parser/
* This project originated from App Design's X12 parser.  
* Project was forked by Sean Walberg, creating version 1.2.0 in April 2012.
* Project was forked by Marty Petersen in November 2012, creating pd_x12. 

Change Log

4/16/15 - release 1.5.1

• Added inpsect method to loop class to resolve infinite loop due to changes with inspect and to_s methods in ruby 2.0.0
• Thank you to Wylan for troubleshooting and providing the fix

11/8/14 - release 1.5.0

• converted from ReXML to LibXML for speed improvement on XML parsing

9/14/13 - release 1.4.7

• Added 276 / 277 transaction messages
• Fixed issue with 835.xml file

4/15/13 - release 1.4.5

• Factories now enforce minimum sizes - wbajzek contributed
• 270Interchange.xml updated ST segment's field list - wbajzek contributed
• Test updated for minimum size - wbajzek contributed

3/22/13 - releases 1.4.1 - 1.4.3

• Fix errors in the 835.xml file

3/11/13 - release 1.4.0

• Added X12 definitions for 271 transaction
• Renamed the gem to be all lower case so Rails and other frameworks autoload the project as a gem
• Added an each method to segments to simplify looping through repeating segments