On Feb 2, 2010, at 2:19 PM, John Mcleod wrote: > Using the .merge method, does this do the actual insert of the new > column data? or does it take the data and "merge" it into the csv before > the insert? > Is this in Ruby? I noticed it's not in the FasterCSV docs. merge() is just Hash#merge() from Ruby, yes. It doesn't change the file, no. It just changes the data read before it is handed off to ActiveRecord. James Edward Gray II