Upload & Parse CSV

Rails
1

Hi All

I was hoping you could help me. I need the ability to upload a large
quantity of data via CSV - via an upload form. The CSV file then needs
parsing and the data entering into the relevant module.

Does anyone have experience of this or perhaps knows of a posting,
generator, existing code or any help at all? I’ve been looking but not
come
across anything so far. I can do this in PHP but would very much like
to
crack this in Rails.

Many thanks for any help.

All the best.

Doug

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Hello Doug,

2006/2/27, Doug B. [email protected]:

I was hoping you could help me. I need the ability to upload a large
quantity of data via CSV - via an upload form. The CSV file then needs
parsing and the data entering into the relevant module.

Make a form with an upload field. Something like this:

app/views/upload/index.rhtml

<%= start_form_tag({:action => :parse}, {:multipart => true}) %>

<%= flash[:error] %>

Upload CSV file: <%= file_field_tag 'data' %> <%= submit_tag 'Upload and parse' %> <%= end_form_tag %>

In your controller, do this:

app/controllers/upload_controller.rb

require ‘csv’

class UploadController < ApplicationController
def parse
if params[:data].size.zero? then
flash[:error].now = ‘Forgot to upload some data’
render ‘index’
return
end

params[:data].rewind # Make sure Tempfile / StringIO is at start of

data
row_count = 0
CSV::Reader.parse(params[:data]) do |row|
row_count += 1
# Do something interesting with row:
# row[0] is first column, row[1] is second column, etc.
end

flash[:status] = "Imported #{row_count} rows"

end
end

app/views/upload/parse.rhtml

<%= flash[:status] %>

<%= link_to 'See imported data', :controller => 'there', :action => 'see-it' %>

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Hope that helps !

3

Hello,

I am trying to get this to work in Rails 2.02. Could anyone tell me
how to modify the post by Francois B. ?

Thanks!
Barb