We're going build a program that downloads a CSV file and creates a graph using Google Charts.
At the end of today's lesson, we'll have learned the basic CSV syntax, how to test a CSV importer, and some basic looping techniques… but don't worry about all that, let's build!
You can see a working version and can view the answer branch.
Just Ruby
We'll use Ruby 1.9.3 MRI for this
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