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

I had this same problem and was just using google spreadsheets and then downloading as a CSV. That was the easiest solution.

Then I came across this gem

https://github.com/singlebrook/utf8-cleaner

Now I don't need to worry about this issue at all. Hope this helps!