Ruby/Rails CSV parsing, invalid byte sequence in UTF-8

Question

I am trying to parse a CSV file generated from an Excel spreadsheet.

Here is my code

require \'csv\'
file = File.open(\"input_file\")
csv = CSV.parse         


        

Answer 1

You need to tell Ruby that the file is in ISO-8859-1. Change your file open line to this:

file=File.open("input_file", "r:ISO-8859-1")

The second argument tells Ruby to open read only with the encoding ISO-8859-1.