Rails - Oct 2006 - serving autogenerated files to users

hi everybody,

my rails app generates a pdf specially made for a user after they
finish filling out a set of online forms. i used pdf-writer to generate
the pdf on the fly which works quite nicely.

my question:
where should i generate the files to if i want the user to be able to
download them after they generate? anywhere in the public folder? also,
what is the ''default'' path? public? so if make a hyperlink
that has
href="/pdfs/cust1.pdf" would that point to RAILS_ROOT +
''/public/pdfs/cust1.pdf'' ???

anything else i need to look out for? also, i don''t plan on keeping
these pdfs on the server forever.. whats a good way to check if they''re
stale and delete them if necessary? i think we are hosting this
ourselves so it could be a crontab.

thanks in advance,

Stuart (the other stuart)


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> where should i generate the files to if i want the user to be able to
> download them after they generate? anywhere in the public folder? also,
> what is the ''default'' path? public? so if make a
hyperlink that has
> href="/pdfs/cust1.pdf" would that point to RAILS_ROOT +
> ''/public/pdfs/cust1.pdf'' ???
I''d use the send_file method in a controller action to allow the user
to
download it. Then it doesn''t matter where you store the file, as long
as
your application can access it.

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