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02 Jan '13, 1am

Importing CSV and Excel #rails #asciicasts

In episode 362 we showed how to export database records to a CSV or Excel file. Since then there have been a number of requests for an episode showing how to import records from these types of files so that’s what we’ll cover in this episode. We’ll do this by adding a form to the bottom of this page that will allow the user to upload a file containing records. When the form is submitted the file will be parsed and the records added to the database. We’ll add the form at the bottom of the view template /app/views/products/index.html.erb Import Products We don’t have an object to handle the importing right now so we’ve used form_tag instead of form_for . The form will be submitted to a new import action on the ProductsController and note that we’ve set the multipart option so that the form can handle file uploads. We’ll need to set up the new path in the routes file so we’ll...

Full article: http://asciicasts.com/episodes/396-importing-csv-and-excel

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