Export data to CSV in rails [closed]

Question

I need export data as CSV in rails appl. I found this plugin: https://github.com/crafterm/comma. Do you know about some better solution?

Answer 1

If using Ruby 1.9.x, then use CSV rather than FasterCSV and stick with the default delimiters.

Controller:

respond_to do |format|   ...              format.csv { render :layout => false } end 

show.csv.erb:

<%= this_is_your_view_helper_method.html_safe %> 

controller_helper.rb:

require 'csv'  def this_is_your_view_helper_method   CSV.generate do |csv|      Product.find(:all).each do |product|       csv << ... add stuff here ...     end   end end 

Answer 2

Checkout this Stack Overflow answer for using CSV in Ruby 1.9.x (which, as Fletch noted, includes FasterCSV but with slightly different syntax).