Data is overwriting instead of appending to CSV - ruby-on-rails

I am using a rake task and the csv module to loop through one csv, extract and alter the data I need and then append each new row of data to a second csv. However each row seems to be overwriting/replacing the previous row in the new csv instead of appending it as a new row after it. I've looked at the documentation and googled but can't find any examples of appending rows to the csv differently.
require 'csv'
namespace :replace do
desc "replace variant id with variant sku"
task :sku => :environment do
file="db/master-list-3-28.csv"
CSV.foreach(file) do |row|
msku, namespace, key, valueType, value = row
valueArray = value.split('|')
newValueString = ""
valueArray.each_with_index do |v, index|
recArray = v.split('*')
handle = recArray[0]
vid = recArray[1]
newValueString << handle
newValueString << "*"
variant = ShopifyAPI::Variant.find(vid)
newValueString << variant.sku
end
#end of value save the newvaluestring to new csv
newFile = Rails.root.join('lib/assets', 'newFile.csv')
CSV.open(newFile, "wb") do |csv|
csv << [newValueString]
end
end
end
end

Your mode when opneing the file is wrong and should be a+. See details in the docs: http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.4/IO.html#method-c-new
Also, you might want to open that file just once and not with every line.

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You could do something similar to this:
def save_job_to_csv(job_data)
filepath = "tmp/jobs/jobs.csv"
unless File.file?(filepath)
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file.puts(job_data.attribute_names.join(','))
end
end
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csv << job_data.attributes.values
end
end
It just checks beforehand if the file exists and if not it adds the header. If you want tabs as column separators, you just have to change the value for the join function and add the col_sep parameter to CSV.open():
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csv << header_row
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Like this?
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If you want to avoid spaces in the file name, you can sub these out like so:
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Is that what you're after? It sounds right based on the question, though happy to update if you're able to correct me :)

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I am using a rake task to take data from one csv, call the shopify api using that data, and save the response to another CSV. The problem is I have no error handler in place so that if the shopify api cannot find the resource I provided, the whole task gets aborted. What is the best way to handle the error so that if the resource is not found in Shopify, simply skip it and proceed to the next row?
The line calling the shopify API in the code below is:
variant = ShopifyAPI::Variant.find(vid)
namespace :replace do
desc "replace variant id with variant sku"
task :sku => :environment do
file="db/master-list-3-28.csv"
newFile = Rails.root.join('lib/assets', 'newFile.csv')
CSV.open(newFile, "a+") do |csv|
CSV.foreach(file) do |row|
msku, namespace, key, valueType, value = row
valueArray = value.split('|')
newValueString = ""
valueArray.each_with_index do |v, index|
recArray = v.split('*')
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sleep 1
# puts variant.sku
newValueString << variant.sku
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newValueString << "|"
end
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end
end
end
end
Here's a simple way to get it done:
begin
variant = ShopifyAPI::Variant.find(vid)
rescue
next
end
If an exception is raised the stuff in rescue happens.

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I'm running a rake task to import some file attributes and I'm receiving an error that would lead me to believe that the string created for each line contains some sort of new-line character (e.g. /n).
EDIT - New-line character has been confirmed to be the issue.
Here is a sample of what my CSV file might look like:
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2|type2|category1,category2,category3
3|type2,type4|category3,category8
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namespace :data do
desc "import"
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attrs = line.split("|")
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...
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You probably have an empty line at the end of your CSV
UPDATE
file = File.open(Rails.root.join('lib/assets/data.csv'), 'r')
file.split("\r\n").each do |line|
or
file = File.open(Rails.root.join('lib/assets/data.csv'), 'r')
file.split("\r").each do |line|
or
file = File.open(Rails.root.join('lib/assets/data.csv'), 'r')
file.split("\n").each do |line|
depending on how the CSV was originally generated!
Use String.encode(universal_newline: true) instead gsub.
It converting CRLF and CR to LF # Always break lines with \n

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Back-end ruby script:
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