Access csv data from htttp request in ruby - ruby

Question

I'm trying to access the csv data, which I recive if I make a http-request.
I don't save it to a csv file, so I save it to the variable.
Let's say this is the response I get, how can I print food?
uuid,event_id,category
12,1,food
13,2,cars
And this is the part of the ruby code which is important.
That's something I found, but it was originally used with a file, so it doesn't work.
csvdata = request(action,parameter)
#data_hash = {}
CSV.foreach(csvdata) do |row|
uuid, event_id, category = row
#data_hash[uuid] = event_id
end
Do I really need files for that or is there a easy way I can access the values?
Update
CSV.parse(csvdata,data = Hash.new) do |row|
puts data
end
The hash should look like this so I can use the column names
{"uuid" => "12,13", "event_id" => "323,3243", "category" => "food,cars"}

Answer 1

csv_data = Hash.new{|k, v| k[v] = []}
CSV.parse(csv_string, headers: true) do |row|
row.each{|k, v| csv_data[k] << v}
end
csv_data = Hash[csv_data.map{|k, v| [k, v.join(",")]}]
Update after specification Requested output.

Answer 2

Try this:
csvdata = request(action,parameter)
#data_hash = {}
CSV.parse(csvdata, headers: true) do |row|
#data_hash[row['uuid']] = row['event_id']
end
#data_hash
# => {"12"=>"1", "13"=>"2"}
When you parse a CSV, the seconds parameter (data = Hash.new in your code) is actually an options parameter. You can see the available options here:
:headers
If set to :first_row or true, the initial row of the CSV file will be treated as a row of headers. If set to an Array, the contents will be used as the headers. If set to a String, the String is run through a call of ::parse_line with the same :col_sep, :row_sep, and :quote_char as this instance to produce an Array of headers. This setting causes #shift to return rows as CSV::Row objects instead of Arrays and #read to return CSV::Table objects instead of an Array of Arrays.
When passing headers: true - values are parsed into a Row object, where they can be accessed by name.