Reputation: 329

Export text in Rails 3

I need to export some data into a text file. I have searched a little and I can't seem to find anything useful and recent. I'm already using pdfkit and csv to export data to pdf and csv files, so I don't know if I can use any of these to make the text. Anyone had this problem and found a solution recently?

EDIT

My question is a little vague, I'll specify more. I need to do something like CSV.generate does. Add rows for every value of the attribute in the register. I find the register, I store it in a variable, and then I need to "add" every value as a row in the textfile. The part of make a loop through the attributes of the register found I got it working, what I don't know is how to copy it. That's the part where I'm stuck.

EDIT 2

I ended up passing an array of all the attributes of the register and saving it in a local variable, then I did what you suggested and it works perfectly.

Upvotes: 0

Answers (3)

Sandip Ransing

Reputation: 7723

In order to export/write something inside text field. first you need to open text file with write mode and then need to write data to it.

file = File.open("/home/sandip/myfile.txt", "w")
file.write "this is how text file can be written"
file.close

file = File.open("/home/sandip/myfile.txt")
file.read #=> this is how text file can be written

If you need to export database records to csv file then make use of csv library its pretty straight forward.. click here

Upvotes: 1

Thomas Tran

Reputation: 467

Quick search: http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=37888

@content = "Hello World"
send_data @content,
  :type => 'text',
  :disposition => "attachment; filename=your_file_name.txt"

Upvotes: 1

pdpMathi

Reputation: 775

Its similar to other file format - export

Try like this

def download_textfile
  @content = get_content
  send_data @content,:type => 'text',:disposition => "attachment; filename=file_name.txt"
end

Upvotes: 0

Export text in Rails 3

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