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

Save the file in utf-8, unless for some reason you need to save it differently in which case you may specify the encoded set while reading the file