Import CSV from url address and export as XML -- Rails

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Published on 2009-10-12T23:36:59Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 5:08 UTC
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Two questions:

How can I import a file from a web address, without a form?

Example: Organisation.import(:from => 'http://wufoo.com/report.csv')
How can I use xml builder without pulling from the db?

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My company uses wufoo for web forms. The data from wufoo is exported as csv files. To get the data into my company's cms, it needs to be formatted as xml. I don't need to store any of the data, aside from the url to the csv file. I thought this might work well as a simple rails app.

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