How to create tab-delimited text files

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Hello Friends I want to generate tab-delimited text file of my every users information in once. i have a button called EXPORT on my page when i clicked on this button than i want to generate tab-delimited text file for every users information. can anybody give any snippet of code or any idea for this

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I'm not sure why you'd want to provide this functionality but here's a stab at it (I'm sure someone will come up with something more elegant)

File.open('file.txt', 'a+') { |f| User.find(:all).each { |u| f.write("#{u.login}\t#{u.email}\n") } }

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Djdon Djdon wrote:

Hello Friends I want to generate tab-delimited text file of my every users information in once. i have a button called EXPORT on my page when i clicked on this button than i want to generate tab-delimited text file for every users information. can anybody give any snippet of code or any idea for this

Install fastercsv gem. Then in your code:

require 'fastercsv'

FasterCSV.generate(:col_sep => "\t") {|csv| csv << [user_name, last_login, etc.]}