Exporting data to CSV and Excel in your Rails apps « Plataformatec BlogSometimes users want to slice and dice data as they wish. In such scenarios, it’s usual to export the data in a tabular format so your users can use any spreadsheet editor and do whatever they want. Usually, we do that using CSV, right? OpenOffice and other editors can open CSV files flawlessly. Just double-click an CSV file and voilà. However, Excel has some gotchas. If you double-click a CSV fil
