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I''m trying to add Vcard import functionality and I keep getting the following using the code provided below. I''m using the VPIM library to decode the vcards and add them to my database table. Can someone help me out, or point me in a different direction for importing VCards. Thanks. Error: cannot convert StringIO into String Controller Code: require

I''m trying to upload a text file from a form and read the file into a string in my rails app. I''ve tried using @import_file = File.read(params[:import_file]) as well as File.open, but I need getting "cannot convert StringIO into String" errors. Anyone have any ideas? - Kyle -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I think I am doing something simply boneheaded but I don''t see it. I hope you are willing to take a look: I am simply wanting to upload a file and hand the file in my controller to some code that will process it. It is not getting stored. The UI is a "maintain" page with a file entry field in a form, and a button to import the file and some other maintenance tasks which are

I''m using backgroundrb to periodically download a large file via ftp from a remote location and then import it into the database. To perform the import, I was using the following: ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute(%{load data infile ...;}) although on a file with 2.5 million records, this can take 5 minutes, which seems to tie up my rails application while this executes (even

Dear R users I am struggling from a data importing issue: I have some hundreds of csv files needed to be read into R for futher analysis. All those csv files are named in one of the three formats: (1) strings: e.g. London_Oxford street (2) Integer: e.g. 1234_5678 (3) combined: e.g. London_1234 I intend to use read.csv("xxxx_xxx.csv") but I only dealt with sigle documents before and

I''m using a Rake task to add local files into a database designed for use with attachment_fu. http://eldorado.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/db/migrate/039_create_avatars.rb http://eldorado.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/lib/tasks/import_files.rake So, attachment_fu has a "content_type" field, which apparently is receiving that information from the browser...? I''m trying to figure out if there is a way to get the content_type of a file (e.g. ''image/png'') that you''ve already got in your file...