diff --git a/client/ruby/solr-ruby/lib/solr/importer/tab_delimited_file_source.rb b/client/ruby/solr-ruby/lib/solr/importer/delimited_file_source.rb
similarity index 80%
rename from client/ruby/solr-ruby/lib/solr/importer/tab_delimited_file_source.rb
rename to client/ruby/solr-ruby/lib/solr/importer/delimited_file_source.rb
index cc369b6a919..70f226a2eb0 100755
--- a/client/ruby/solr-ruby/lib/solr/importer/tab_delimited_file_source.rb
+++ b/client/ruby/solr-ruby/lib/solr/importer/delimited_file_source.rb
@@ -13,19 +13,20 @@
 # For files with the first line containing field names
 # Currently not designed for enormous files, as all lines are
 # read into an array
-class Solr::Importer::TabDelimitedFileSource
+class Solr::Importer::DelimitedFileSource
   include Enumerable
   
-  def initialize(filename)
+  def initialize(filename, splitter=/\t/)
     @filename = filename
+    @splitter = splitter
   end
 
   def each
     lines = IO.readlines(@filename)
-    headers = lines[0].split("\t").collect{|h| h.chomp}
+    headers = lines[0].split(@splitter).collect{|h| h.chomp}
     
     lines[1..-1].each do |line|
-      data = headers.zip(line.split("\t").collect{|s| s.chomp})
+      data = headers.zip(line.split(@splitter).collect{|s| s.chomp})
       def data.[](key)
         self.assoc(key.to_s)[1]
       end
diff --git a/client/ruby/solr-ruby/test/unit/tab_delimited_file_source_test.rb b/client/ruby/solr-ruby/test/unit/delimited_file_source_test.rb
similarity index 87%
rename from client/ruby/solr-ruby/test/unit/tab_delimited_file_source_test.rb
rename to client/ruby/solr-ruby/test/unit/delimited_file_source_test.rb
index f1a20979933..bb52fcc11ab 100755
--- a/client/ruby/solr-ruby/test/unit/tab_delimited_file_source_test.rb
+++ b/client/ruby/solr-ruby/test/unit/delimited_file_source_test.rb
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@
 require 'solr'
 require 'test/unit'
 
-class TabDelimitedFileSourceTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
+class DelimitedFileSourceTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
 
   def test_load
     filename = File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__)) + "/tab_delimited.txt"
     
-    source = Solr::Importer::TabDelimitedFileSource.new(filename)
+    source = Solr::Importer::DelimitedFileSource.new(filename,/\t/)
     assert_equal source.to_a.size, 1
     
     source.each do |data|