Question

I have this, which will have another 3 or 4 variables appended:

name, theme = row[0], row[1]

Is there a shortcut to the code on the right? I tried:

name, theme = row

But then name returned the entire row, and didn’t seem to work in this case.

I am using CSV.foreach, and the above didn’t work when I added {headers: true}:

CSV.foreach('file.csv', {headers: true}) do |row|
  name, theme = row

  name # returns entire row in string
end

Answer 1

Just in case your row is not array, try calling

name, theme = Array row

or

name, theme = row.to_a

If it doesn’t have to_a method, yo’ve to define it.