Perhaps an oddball question. Doing a Model.all or the like gets me a somewhat pretty output of the array, [#<Model id:5, name:"Blahblah">,#<Model id:5, name:"Etc">]. Is there an easy way to convert this into a CSV/Excel format with the attributes as columns?
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Yes.
Use the FasterCSV gem to generate a CSV from a list of your models.
But there's no good way to do this automatically. So you should add a class method to your model that produces the CSV from an array.
example:
class Model < ActiveRecord::Base
require 'FCSV'
def self.to_csv list
csv_string = FasterCSV.generate do |csv|
attributes_for_csv = [:id, :name]
csv << attributes_for_csv.map{|a| a.to_s.titlize}
list.each do |item|
csv << attributes_for_csv.map{|a| item.send(a)}
emd
end
...
end
Model.to_csv Model.all
Warning: it's not going to be perfect, you're still going to get a string that starts and ends with ". But it's pretty easy to remove the start and end quotes.
