From 57c786824067054ce7d0e558f355987d0948f205 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?King=20K=C3=A9vin?= <kingkevin@cuvoodoo.info>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:50:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add helped functions to generate footprints

---
 hardware/lib/footprints/element.rb | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 hardware/lib/footprints/element.rb

diff --git a/hardware/lib/footprints/element.rb b/hardware/lib/footprints/element.rb
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..38ccf1b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hardware/lib/footprints/element.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# encoding: utf-8
+# written for ruby 2.1.0
+# helper functions to generate gEDA pcb files (on stdout)
+
+# simple method to clean the dimension
+def dim(dimension)
+  return dimension.round(3).to_s+UNIT
+end
+
+# print parameters within an element
+def element(name,params)
+  to_return = ""
+  to_return += name
+  to_return += '['
+  params.collect! do |param|
+    case param
+    when Symbol
+      param.to_s
+    when String
+      '"'+param+'"'
+    when Fixnum, Float
+      dim(param)
+    else 
+      raise "unknowm paramter type: #{param.class}"
+    end
+  end
+  to_return += params*' '
+  to_return += ']'
+  return to_return
+end