Rails FasterCSV “unquoted fields do not allow \r or \n”

Question

I\'m having an issue with FasterCSV and my rake db:seeds migration. I get the error: \"rake aborted! Unquoted fields do not allow \\r or \\n (line 2)\" on the following se

Answer 1

It was as simple as clearing all the formatting off in the csv. Excel seems to have a habit of retaining a lot of the formatting after saving in a csv file, which was causing the failure. After I copied and pasted all the data with no formatting in a new csv file, it was fine.

Answer 2

I do not have enough reputation to comment, but I wanted to say that I have been looking this error across the web day and night for a long time and finally found the solution in the comments, by mu is too short.

I finally got it to work when I put quotes around all of my values.

EDIT: Link to answer!!! Rails FasterCSV "unquoted fields do not allow \r or \n"

Answer 3

Use String.encode(universal_newline: true) instead gsub. It converting CRLF and CR to LF # Always break lines with \n