The one downside to this is that ForgivingReader will assume that the order of the fields in the directory is the same as the order of fields in the field data. Hopefully this will be the case, but it is not 100% guranteed which is why the normal behavior of Reader is encouraged.
# File lib/marc/reader.rb, line 177 def initialize(file) if file.class == String @handle = File.new(file) elsif file.respond_to?("read", 5) @handle = file else throw "must pass in path or File object" end end
# File lib/marc/reader.rb, line 188 def each @handle.each_line(END_OF_RECORD) do |raw| begin record = MARC::Reader.decode(raw, :forgiving => true) yield record rescue StandardError => e # caught exception just keep barrelling along # TODO add logging end end end