# Anyone have experience with the USDA SR19 database?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-have-experience-with-the-usda-sr19-database/111004>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 1, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-have-experience-with-the-usda-sr19-database/111004 "2007-08-01T20:59:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![rob](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rob](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rob)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-have-experience-with-the-usda-sr19-database/111004/1 "2007-08-01T20:59:13Z")

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I’m building a fitness site that uses the SR19 database for foods from  
the USDA website, but I’m having some trouble figuring out how to  
parse and import it properly to use in a ruby/rails fashion. Anyone  
have experience using it with Rails?

Rob

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**Author:** ![rob](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rob](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rob)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-have-experience-with-the-usda-sr19-database/111004/2 "2007-08-01T21:04:14Z")

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This is what I did a while ago, except I don’t really remember what it  
does exactly, so, hopefully it helps:

[http://pastie.caboo.se/84127](http://pastie.caboo.se/84127)

On 8/1/07, rob [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

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