From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...>
Date: 2006-07-13T06:50:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Appending to a CSV file

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Hi,

Bil Kleb wrote:
> Just got a call from a telecommuting colleague
> who's using Ruby to automate a bunch of CEV[1]
> CFD[2] simulations.
> 
> She says that she can't figure out how to /append/
> to a CSV file using Ruby's standard library.
> 
> Does anyone have the magic recipe, or should
> she be using FasterCSV instead?

Please use CSV::Writer.  An instance of CSV is not an IO in contrast to
a FasterCSV.

  CSV::Writer.generate(file_to_append) do |csv|
    csv << [1, 2, 3]
  end

Regards,
// NaHi
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin)

iQEVAwUBRLVubx9L2jg5EEGlAQKfNwf/SJvTZox2avqI+HMjUqHt/lkVK2/oIvHQ
96ZjcxXRUGXwIX/e93RGkczJVeygcF7XnpNfDHWJmSInDjhVdjz0SJqsrODMLtBI
1kDhWwqSCCGXfxBAr+JH/QYdC1Bf0pfO15vdWo0eY9k3zlQ/UKLT5uEicPzvnPlD
hEYIhn0rZnfb3GR7ZTUMECMlnL1zg+wQ7Y4S/r3sW685QXHCSC3iGclrd0ngDIz0
hJOcUvg1Idp9YgfZ+DA98YICIiG+o9iZM1fnk0PUhyncGMLHjIMYlqeeqXdgMX+G
UGpB2Mf+pZBxV7QeYC3M+qAXL6yHMoqF06udVAYyeGYGh7BJ80zamg==
=X1oC
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----