Rails - Jul 2009 - Quicktime Movie from Hard Disk

Hi there,

i want to embed a Quicktime-Movie on my Page.
I use the following code:

<embed src="Z:/09002_R/client/090423_1730/RO.mov"
width="200"
height="240" autoplay="true">

Getting the file by an internet-adress erverything is fine, but it
doesn''t apply by using the path from my hard-disk.

Is their a special usage of describing path-names in rails?
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On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Hans
Hartmann<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> i want to embed a Quicktime-Movie on my Page.
> I use the following code:
>
> <embed src="Z:/09002_R/client/090423_1730/RO.mov"
width="200"
> height="240" autoplay="true">
>
> Getting the file by an internet-adress erverything is fine, but it
> doesn''t apply by using the path from my hard-disk.
Well a file url looks something like this:

file:///Z:/09002_R/client/090423_1730/RO.mov

But if that works at all, it will only work on YOUR computer, or at
least one which has that file in that place on a local Z disk.

I think that most browsers balk at such a URL anyway when it''s
received from a server.
> Is their a special usage of describing path-names in rails?
If you want to serve up the file, you need to put it under the public
directory, say in a movies subdirectory, and then use a path like

movies/movie_name.mov

I''m not sure what your directory structure means you could have a
subdirectory structure under public/movies the point is that the url
path should be relative to the public dir.


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And what can i do, if the file is some "levels" higher than my 
public-folder. Is there a possibility to browse "back". I tried so
much
... but nothing worked.

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No, there isn''t - barring sneaky stuff involving send_file,
you''ll
need to put the file someplace that gets served to the web.

If you weren''t on Windows, I''d suggest trying a symlink, but
Windows
doesn''t support that.

--Matt Jones

On Jul 14, 12:39 pm, Hans Hartmann
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> And what can i do, if the file is some "levels" higher than my
> public-folder. Is there a possibility to browse "back". I tried
so much
> ... but nothing worked.
>
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