Rails - Jul 2007 - How to display an image that is stored on a file store outside the \public folder

I would like know how do I display images that are stored on a file
store outside the public folder. I will be creating these images
outside the web application but wanted to display the images. What are
the options available for me. I looked at the file_column and the
fleximage plugins. I could not figure it out. Could someone help me
out.
Thanks
sm


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On Jul 16, 5:40 pm, Silvy
<silvy.math...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I would like know how do I display images that are stored on a file
> store outside the public folder. I will be creating these images
> outside the web application but wanted to display the images. What are
> the options available for me. I looked at the file_column and the
> fleximage plugins. I could not figure it out. Could someone help me
> out.
> Thanks
> sm
how about:
http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2006/11/serving-protected-downloads-with-rails/
http://robertrevans.com/article/files-outside-public-directory


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i would like to know whethere u r storing u r image in database with
binary format or not,if u r storing the image in binary format.to
display them in u r application u have to write in controller, to
convert the stored binary format to original image

On Jul 17, 9:48 am,
"gene.t...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org"
<gene.t...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On Jul 16, 5:40 pm, Silvy
<silvy.math...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > I would like know how do I display images that are stored on a file
> > store outside the public folder. I will be creating these images
> > outside the web application but wanted to display the images. What are
> > the options available for me. I looked at the file_column and the
> > fleximage plugins. I could not figure it out. Could someone help me
> > out.
> > Thanks
> > sm
>
> how
about:http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2006/11/serving-protected-downloads...http://robertrevans.com/article/files-outside-public-directory

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Thanks for the replies. I wanted to store the actual images in the
file store outside the public folder. But have references to these
images in the database. I will be pre-rendering these images in
different formats. Basically I wanted to traverse an hierarchical tree
menu and at the end of the leaf when further branches are not there, I
wanted to display these images as thumbnails. When clicked on the
thumbnail, I would like to show the actual image. Also wanted to
implements the REST style routing.

controller

def index
    menu= Menu.find(params[:menu_id])
    @catalogues = Catalogue.find(:all, :conditions =>
"parent_id=''#{menu.id}''")
    if @catalogues  == []
    	@contents= Catalogue.find_content_for_the_catalogue(menu.id)
    end
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html # index.rhtml
      format.xml  { render :xml => @catalogues.to_xml }
    end
  end

View
*******
<% if @catalogues  != [] %>
	<% for catalogue in @catalogues %>
	  <tr>
	   <td><%= link_to catalogue.name, catalogues_path(catalogue)
%></td>
	  </tr>
	<% end %>
<% else %>
	  <tr>
		    <%  @contents.contents.each do |content| %>
				    <tr >
				      <td><%= link_to(image_tag("images/50x50/#{content.name
+"_50X50"}.png",  :border => 1), {:controller =>
''contents'',  :action
=>"show",  :id=>content.id})%>
			         </tr>
   	        <% end %>
	  </tr>
<% end %>

I would like to display these images from the file store.
Thanks
Silvy


On Jul 16, 11:14 pm, seeram_theprince
<umamaheshva...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> i would like to know whethere u r storing u r image in database with
> binary format or not,if u r storing the image in binary format.to
> display them in u r application u have to write in controller, to
> convert the stored binary format to original image
>
> On Jul 17, 9:48 am,
"gene.t...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org"
<gene.t...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > On Jul 16, 5:40 pm, Silvy
<silvy.math...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > > I would like know how do I display images that are stored on a
file
> > > store outside the public folder. I will be creating these images
> > > outside the web application but wanted to display the images.
What are
> > > the options available for me. I looked at the file_column and the
> > > fleximage plugins. I could not figure it out. Could someone help
me
> > > out.
> > > Thanks
> > > sm
>
> > how
about:http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2006/11/serving-protected-downloads...

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