Simple benchmarking script for comparing different Ruby csv parsers.

Some of these gems will only work with MRI 1.8, as they are native extensions.

Results
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Testing csv/presidents.csv

               user     system      total        real
CSV            0.010000   0.000000   0.010000 (  0.000632)
smarter_csv    0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.002412)
ccsv           0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000110)

Testing csv/geoip.csv

               user     system      total        real
CSV            1.820000   0.000000   1.820000 (  1.831765)
smarter_csv    16.920000  0.040000  16.960000 ( 17.000845)
ccsv           0.100000   0.010000   0.110000 (  0.102375)


Parsing Error Handling
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It doesn't seem that ccsv has added any error handling capabilities since vonconrad (original csv-benchmark author) ran his tests.

Credits
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Sample CSVs are taken from:
presidents.csv > See People Software (http://seepeoplesoftware.com/downloads/older-versions/11-sample-csv-file-of-us-presidents.html)
geoip.csv 		 > MaxMind (http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecountry)

If you want to try a (significantly) larger file, MaxMind has a city-level geoip file as well: http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity