Loading data from multiple files in Ruby using Hash

Loading data into Database reading from multiple files was never easy. I have been working on different projects lately, which required such exercise often. A general technique I followed to do that is explained here. In a gist, this is what it looks like:

require 'rubygems'
require 'fastercsv'

files.each do |key, value|
	file = "#{RAILS_ROOT}/db/drugsatfda/" + key
	recs = 0

	puts "Working with #{value.pluralize}.."
	FasterCSV.foreach(file, :headers => true) do |row|
		begin
			obj = value.constantize.new(Array.to_hash(row.headers, row.fields))
			obj.save

			recs += 1
		rescue => e
			puts "Rows processed: " + recs.to_s
			puts e
		end
	end
	puts "Loaded #{recs} #{value.pluralize}"
end

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• fasterCSV
• hash
• rails
• Ruby