Hi to everyone on the list. I''m a newbie to ruby on rails but so far i''m liking every second of development with it. That said, i have a minor problem using the send_file method. My application takes an uploaded file and writes it to the file system, then i run some ruby code to parse the file and convert it to xml. All of this runs without a problem. However, when i try to push the file for the user to download, i get the following error: IndexError in File#download index 543879 out of string here is the trace /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.0/lib/action_controller/streaming.rb:57:in `[]='' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.0/lib/action_controller/streaming.rb:57:in `send_file'' #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/controllers/file_controller.rb:12:in `download'' right now the files reside in a directory i created called work, but i get the same error when i put the files into the public directory does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks in advance for the help Chris Martin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060106/b5491636/attachment.html