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I''m noticing a different behavior between development and production environments when I use caches_action along with send_data. I have a method: def image @thePic = Picture.find(params[:id]) send_data(@thePic.image.data, :filename => @thePic.image.filename, :type => @thePic.image.content_type, :disposition => "attachment") end Which works fine; it returns an image as expected, which is downloaded by the browser. When I add a decla...

I need to store rather large data in the database using blobs. I''ve been working with Rails and have designed a proof-of-concept setup that works pretty well, except there''s a considerable performance hit with very large files due to the fact that ActiveRecord loads the entire blob into memory before the data can get passed to send_data. I know at least one person is going

R users, How come R doesn't have a mascot? Linux has one and so does LaTeX, so shouldn't R? I personally think that associating a "friendly face" with R would be a good thing for R (one letter names can be quite intimidating). I apologize if this is addressed in the FAQ. I searched the FAQ as well as the mailing list archives and checked ?mascot but to no avail. ;-)