• https://github.com/zdavatz/swissmedic-diff

• Compares two Excel Documents provided by Swissmedic and displays the salient differences. Also: Find out what Products have changed on the swiss healthcare market.

Up-To-Date file:

• http://www.swissmedic.ch//daten/00080/00251/index.html

Swissmedic does not store old files. You must do this on your own.

Version 0.1.3 is capable of the Packungen.xls without column 'Gruppe', column E in the previous format. If you want to use Packunge.xls including the column 'Gruppe', you should use version 0.1.2. After you get the source code via Git command, type in the swissmedic-diff directory as follows:

• git checkout 4c8c9323297453c3cb3380a9d41457d534ed8861

Then you can get the version 0.1.2.

• ruby 1.9, ruby 2.x
• spreadsheet

The easiest way to install is via RubyGems. On the command line enter:

• gem build swissmedic-diff.gemspec
• sudo gem install swissmedic-diff-0.1.3.gem

To manually install, use the included setup.rb script:

• sudo ruby setup.rb

See test directory for tests. Run

• ruby test/test_swissmedic-diff.rb

for testing.

Usage: /usr/bin/swissmedic-diff [-gnr] []

-g --group sort by news, deletions and updates -n --name sort by name -r --registration sort by registration

• Hannes Wyss hwyss@ywesee.com
• Masaomi Hatakeyama mhatakeyama@ywesee.com
• Zeno R.R. Davatz zdavatz@ywesee.com
• Niklaus Giger ngiger@ywesee.com

• GPLv2