ruby on rails 3 - Ignore header line when parsing CSV file

Question

How can the header line of the CSV file be ignored in ruby on rails while doing the CSV parsing!! Any ideas

Answer 1

If you're using ruby 1.8.X and FasterCSV, it has a 'headers' option:

csv = FasterCSV.parse(your_csv_file, {:headers => true}) #or false if you do want to read them

If you're using ruby 1.9.X, the default library is basically FasterCSV, so you can just do the following:

csv = CSV.parse(your_csv_file, {headers: true})