Question

I need to create a tab delimited ASCII file from a table (Hits) in my DB. I can already export this table into a CSV file. What’s the best way to go about doing this? Is there a way to easily create this in rails?

Answer 1

Assume the CSV data is in “something.csv” and delimited by “,”

require 'csv'
File.open("tab_seperated.txt", "w+") do |f|
  f << CSV.parse(File.read("something.csv")).map{|row| row.join("\t")}.join("\n")
end