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Solved it. The key is that I was looking at the reporting section of the measure writers guide. If You use the GUI to create a new measure and select a reporting measure this will give a template with the required include statements and the correct scope definitions (query my terminology on the last, I'm not Ruby competent). Drop the required code in and the idf file is updated as required.
This is not particularly intuitive though; I needed to modify the idf which I thought should happen prior to running the energy plus simulation. The documentation says that reporting measures are run last in the workflow.
