Ruby unable to parse a CSV file: CSV::MalformedCSVError (Illegal quoting in line 1.)

Question

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Ruby ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-09-23 revision 33323) [i686-linux]

Rails 3.2.9

Following is

Answer 1

from this thread pass the option :quote_char => "|"

CSV.read(filename, :quote_char => "|")