Re: Dynamically generated images

Jeremy Kemper
2005-04-30T18:36:56Z

On Apr 30, 2005, at 3:22 AM, David Corbin wrote:
> I''d like to be able to dynamically generate images in my rails
> applications.
> I''m think I''m good on how to build the image data, but
I''m not
> clear on how I
> can get access to the output stream to send the data.  Is this just
> done by
> writing to stdout in an view?

Check out the send_data method of ActionController::Base.  It sets up
some headers for you then calls render_text on the blob you passed it.

jeremy