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

add second argument "r:ISO-8859-1" as File.open("input_file","r:ISO-8859-1" )