export an object to csv file currently displaying data inline - ruby-on-rails

Question

I have #people variable contains data look exactly like:
What I have
[{"id"=>1, "name"=>"Tom", "age"=>"25"},
{"id"=>2, "name"=>"Marry", "age"=>"27"},
{"id"=>3, "name"=>"Jack", "age"=>"28"}]
and I am trying to convert the data to the CSV file, which might look like
What I am aiming to do
id | name | age
1 | Tom | 25
2 | Marry| 27
3 | Jack | 28
but my code generates a CSV file with displaying all of the data inline. For example:
What I get
{"id"=>1,"name"=>"Tom","age"=>25},{"id"=>2, "name"=>"Marry",
"age"=>"27"},{"id"=>3, "name"=>"Jack", "age"=>"28"}
What I did:
to_csv action look like:
def to_csv
CSV.generate(option) do |csv|
csv << column_names
values.each do |value|
csv << value.attributes.values_at(*column_names)
end
end
end
I added this respond_to block to one of my actions:
respond_to do |format|
format.html
format.csv {
send_data #people.to_csv,
filename: "export.csv",
type: 'text/csv; charset=utf-8'
}
I am getting data(e.g {"id"=>1,"name"=>"Tom","age"=>25 ...) from external so I pushed that data into #people variable to use. Any help would be very appreciated.

Answer 1

I think you need to write the function differently:
def to_csv(people)
CSV.generate do |csv|
return unless people.count > 0
csv << people[0].keys
people.each do |person|
csv << person.values
end
end
end
I suppose you could even do:
def to_csv(people)
CSV.generate do |csv|
return unless people.count > 0
csv << people[0].keys
csv << people.each.map{|item| item.values}
end
end
And then call it as a function:
respond_to do |format|
format.html
format.csv {
send_data to_csv(#people),
filename: "export.csv",
type: 'text/csv; charset=utf-8'
}

Answer 2

you Don't need to do like value.attributes.values_at(*column_names) just you need to do value.values which will give you the array of values that you want to store it in CSV.
for example
people = [{"id"=>1, "name"=>"Tom", "age"=>"25"},
{"id"=>2, "name"=>"Marry", "age"=>"27"},
{"id"=>3, "name"=>"Jack", "age"=>"28"}]
def to_csv
CSV.generate(headers: true) do |csv|
csv << column_names
people.each do |person|
csv << person.values
end
end
end

Answer 3

Here is how i do mine,
in my controller i added
respond_to do |format|
format.html
format.csv { send_data #people.to_csv }
end
then
def self.to_csv(options = {})
CSV.generate(options) do |csv|
csv << column_names
all.each do |project|
csv << people.attributes.values_at(*column_names)
end
end
end
then dont forget to require 'csv' in your config/application.rb
then you can link to your csv with something like <%= link_to "CSV", people_path(format: "csv") %>