Question

I have some csv exported rows of data that I need to load into a Rails 2.3.8 app.

The csv data is already in the perfect format for the app that I’m hosting on Heroku.
Is there an easy way to do it?

Thanks,
Augusto

Answer 1

You could use Ruby’s built-in CSV library to read your data into an array, which you can then do whatever you need to with:

CSV.foreach("path/to/file.csv") do |row|
  # use row here...
  # For example, if you had users in a CSV file like "username,email" you could do:
  User.create(:username => row[0], :email => row[1])
end