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Welcome to the active_importer wiki!

This gem allows you to define importers that load tabular data from spreadsheets or CSV files into any ActiveRecord-like ORM.

Getting started

• Understanding how spreadsheets are parsed
• Mapping columns to attributes

Diving in

• Custom data processing
• Helper methods
• File extension and supported formats
• Passing custom parameters
• Events and callbacks
• Selecting the model instance to import into (Update instead of create)
• Error handling
• Selecting the sheet to get data from
• Skipping rows

Advanced features

• Aborting the import process
• Transactional importers
• Handling untitled columns

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Take a look at our contributions guide for details.