Ruby/Rails CSV parsing, invalid byte sequence in UTF-8

Question

I am trying to parse a CSV file generated from an Excel spreadsheet.

Here is my code

require \'csv\'
file = File.open(\"input_file\")
csv = CSV.parse         


        

Answer 1

You can supply source encoding straight in the file mode parameter:

CSV.foreach( "file.csv", "r:windows-1250" ) do |row|
   <your code>
end