JSON to CSV converter

This project allows to convert a JSON file, which contains an array of objects, into a CSV file

What can you do

This project is composed of a set of recursive functions get_properties and get_values that get an infinetely nested JSON objects (given they all have the same structure) and flatten them out.

Given the input

[{
    "email": "batman@justice_league.com",
    "tags": ["bat", "hero"],
    "profiles": {
        "facebook": {
            "id": 0,
            "picture": "Bruce.jpg"
        },
    }
}]

It will output the following

email, tags, profiles.facebook.id, profiles.facebook.picture
batman@justice_league.com, "bat,hero", 0, Bruce.jpg

How to use

This project has a main function, convert_json_to_csv that takes 2 inputs: - input JSON file path - output CSV file path And makes the full convertion and overwrites the given output file or creates a new one if the file path given doesn't exist.

The following command takes the example from users.json files and writes to output.csv file the result of the convertion

ruby main.rb