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Comment on Rails: Importing data from spreadsheets into database by Nithin Bekal

Nithin Bekal — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:15:28 +0000

@NealMJD. Thank you for the comment. I suppose the problem with putting the task in lib folder was because the path to images is relative to the root folder.

Comment on Rails: Importing data from spreadsheets into database by NealJMD

NealJMD — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:16:22 +0000

I just want to add a note that I discovered when I was using this tutorial to set up my rake task. I needed to create entries in a database each of which with an image. I'm using paperclip by thoughtbot for image storage so I did this -

FasterCSV.foreach("product_categories.csv") do |row|
      puts row[0]
      puts row[1]
      ProductCategory.create(
                 :name => row[0].to_s,
                 :main_image => File.open(row[1].to_s)
               )
end

I ended up putting in those puts just to give a little more info when the task is run. Additionally I had to put my product_categories.csv file in the root directory of my app. Anyway this post saved me a ton of time, thanks for writing it!

Comment on Rails: Importing data from spreadsheets into database by Nithin Bekal

Nithin Bekal — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:35:40 +0000

@anon. Thanks. :)

Comment on Rails: Importing data from spreadsheets into database by anon

anon — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:40:09 +0000

awesome tutorial. worked like a charm; way easier than most of the other tutorials I’ve seen out there for this kinda stuff.

Comment on Rails: Importing data from spreadsheets into database by Nithin Bekal

Nithin Bekal — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:30:40 +0000

@gnitmada. Put it in the lib/tasks directory.

Comment on Rails: Importing data from spreadsheets into database by gnitmada

gnitmada — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:35:43 +0000

What rails directory does the file need to be put in?

Comment on Rails: Avoid multiple level nested resource routes by Sathya Sekaran

Sathya Sekaran — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:24:02 +0000

Yeah, I’ve been looking around to see if anyone had a better approach than nesting like crazy, and I like the standard approach you’re describing (and that most people use) better. It just doesn’t sit well with me to have so many levels of nesting, even if it’s restful to do so.

Comment on Setting up Ruby on Rails development environment with NetBeans on Windows by mohd ajmal

mohd ajmal — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:14:01 +0000

thank you for tutorial ……

Comment on Setting up Ruby on Rails development environment with NetBeans on Windows by Nithin Bekal

Nithin Bekal — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:48:03 +0000

@cooljaz. Good to hear you are moving to rails development. Trust me, you’ll enjoy it.

Comment on Setting up Ruby on Rails development environment with NetBeans on Windows by cooljaz124

cooljaz124 — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:48:57 +0000

Just done the whole process. Have to Check out the IDE now. Thanks Man !!