a better to_csv plugin

April 21st, 2008 @ 12:15 PM

This is 90% a rip-off from the Active Record Extensions by Zach Dennis version of to_csv but extracted out and updated a bit (to rails 2.0 and a bit more friendly with your models).

It depends on fastercsv, a gem.

How it works

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# just do the thang
@reports.to_csv 

# include a relation
@reports.to_csv(:include => :reporter)

# change the column headers
@reporters.to_csv(:headers => {'Contact Last Name' => 'last_name',
   'Contact First Name' => 'first_name', 'Contact Email' => 'email'})

Try it out

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sudo gem install fastercsv
script/plugin install svn://svn.joots.com/public/plugins/to_csv

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