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Have you reviewed the Measure Writer's Reference Guide? If not that is a good place to start. As far as OpenStudio measure, each measure passes in a model, runs the measure code on that model, then passes a modified model out. So for basic measures you don't have to worry about ruby file management. Often scripts may load or write to CSV files. For that you need to have some basic understanding of ruby file management.

Have you reviewed the Measure Writer's Reference Guide? If not that is a good place to start. As far as file management with OpenStudio measure, measures, each measure passes in a model, runs the measure code on that model, in the `run' method, then passes a modified model out. So for basic measures you don't have to worry about ruby file management. Often scripts may load or write to CSV files. For that you need to have some basic understanding of ruby file management.