Rails - Jul 2009 - download file located outside rails aaplication folder

hi,

how can i access/download a file located somewhere else outside rails
application folder? suppose, file is in /tmp/ or /home/some_folder/ on
linux, then what should be the path given for send_file?

-DPP
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Dhaval Phansalkar wrote:
> hi,
> 
> how can i access/download a file located somewhere else outside rails
> application folder? suppose, file is in /tmp/ or /home/some_folder/ on
> linux, then what should be the path given for send_file?
> 
> -DPP
one of our perl script generates reports in /tmp/reports and i need to 
download them. can somebody help in this please? is there any risk 
putting outside file path to download function?

-dpp
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http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Streaming.html#M000421

Sijo
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Sijo Kg wrote:
> http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Streaming.html#M000421
> 
> Sijo
thanks sijo. i had tried that some days back and it didn''t worked that 
time but it worked today.. strange. anyways... thanks for your time and 
help.

btw, is there any risk putting the outside rails file path, directly in 
the download function? there is something called "sanitize" in the
docs.
can you or anybody explain a bit about that with some examples?

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