I''m developing a RoR app that uses a custom file type. I''m using file_column plugin to upload the files into my rails application, and that part works great. However I then need to render these files. I have an application that does this, and is designed to be run from the cgi directory. However, the integration between this cgi program and my rails application is not working. For example: The following URL works, the abc file is rendered properly: http://localhost/SimpleBow.abc So that tells me that my Apache has the abc file type registered properly, and the abc program in the cgi directory runs properly. The following URL gets me to the right file: <%= link_to "http://localhost"+url_for_file_column(abctable, ''abc'').to_s, "http://localhost"+url_for_file_column(abctable, ''abc'').to_s %> So that tells me that the upload process is working. However, it does not use the right rendering program from the cgi directory, and that is my problem. If I print out the url_for_file_column(abctable, ''abc'') field, it does have the right relative path, including the proper file extention. I have tried using button_to, and using localhost instead of localhost: 3000, and just the relative path names. None of those things worked. In rails, I have an object called abctable which has a string field called abc that contains the filename. I configured Apache with this: Action application/x-httpd-abc /cgi-bin/abc2cgi AddType application/x-httpd-abc abc Thanks for any help. Joshua Levy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---