How to remove a row from a CSV with Ruby

Question

Given the following CSV file, how would you remove all rows that contain the word \'true\' in the column \'foo\'?

Date,foo,bar
2014/10/31,true,derp
2014/10/         


        

Answer 1

You might want to filter rows in a ruby manner:

require 'csv' 
csv = CSV.parse(File.read(@csvfile), {
  :col_sep => ",", 
  :headers => true
  }
).collect { |item| item[:foo] != 'true' }

Hope it help.