Question

I am banging my head try to resolve an issue I am experiencing with one of my latest projects. Here is the senario:

I am making an call to GoToWebinar API to fetch upcoming webinars. Everything is working fine and the webinars are fetched in the form of hash just like this :

[
{
"webinarKey":5303085652037254656,
"subject":"Test+Webinar+One",
"description":"Test+Webinar+One+Description",
"times":[{"startTime":"2011-04-26T17:00:00Z","endTime":"2011-04-26T18:00:00Z"}]
},
{
"webinarKey":9068582024170238208,
"name":"Test+Webinar+Two",
"description":"Test Webinar Two Description",
"times":[{"startTime":"2011-04-26T17:00:00Z","endTime":"2011-04-26T18:00:00Z"}]
}
]

I have created a rake task which we are going to run once a day to populate the CSV file with this hash and then the CSV file is read in the controller action to populate the views.

Here is my code to populate the CSV file :

g = GoToWebinar::API.new()
@all_webinars = g.get_upcoming_webinars
CSV.open("#{Rails.root.to_s}/public/upcoming_webinars.csv", "wb") do |csv|
  @all_webinars.each do |webinar|
    webinar.to_a.each {|elem| csv << elem}
  end
end

I need some help in figuring out a way to save the information received in the form of hashed to be saved in the CSV file in such a way that the order is preserved and also a way to read to the information back from the CSV file that it populates the hash in the controller action in the very same way.

Answer 1

From What I have learnt from all the examples and work done to accomplish this I think the best way to go around this type of functionality is to create a rake task to and populate the database with the information and use the information saved to populate the views.