TIL exporting from Rails console to a file

TIL: exporting from Rails console to a file

I was looking to export a large Ruby object to a .rb file.

I found a few tips on exporting to .csv from this site:

require 'csv'
 
file = "#{Rails.root}/public/user_data.csv"
 
products = Product.order(:first_name)
 
headers = ["Product ID", "Name", "Price", "Description"]
 
CSV.open(file, 'w', write_headers: true, headers: headers) do |writer|
  products.each do |product|
    writer << [product.id, product.name, product.price, product.description]
  end
end

And eventually found what I was looking for: a simple way to export to any File object. Thanks to this SO solution.

irb:001> f = File.new('statements.rb', 'w')
irb:002> f << Account.find(1)
irb:003> f.close