What is Ruby 1.9 standard CSV library?

Question

When I try the FasterCSV gem on my application I get this error:

Please switch to Ruby 1.9\'s standard
CSV library.  It\'s FasterCSV plus
support for Ruby 1.         


        

Answer 1

Ruby 1.9 has adopted FasterCSV as its built-in CSV library. However, it's in the standard library rather than Ruby 1.9's core, so you need to manually require it in your application.

After adding a

require 'csv'

to your code, you can then do things such as

CSV.parse("this,is,my,data")

See Ruby 1.9's standard library CSV documentation for information on using the library.