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Hi, I''m using pdf/Writer to generate a pdf-file, but whatever I do, it gets saved in folder of my app, and not on the users desktop. I''ve used pdf = PDF::Writer.new pdf.select_font "Times-Roman" pdf.text "Hello.pdf", :font_size => 12, :justification => :left File.open("hello.pdf", "wb") { |f|

I''m attempting to use send_file to send an image file from public/images. The file is world readable. I keep getting the following error: A ActionController::MissingFile occurred in account#current_logo: Cannot read file public/images/logo.png /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/streaming.rb:55:in `send_file'' I''ve tried supplying

Hi! Today I needed to implement some controller code, that uses send_file() to send image data. How can this be tested / specified with RSpec? bye, Tobias

Hi, I am using send_file to allow users to download files from my website, please see code beloe: def download_document send_file("#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/test_form.pdf", :filename => "test.pdf", :type => ''application/pdf'', :disposition => ''attachment'', :streaming

Im having an issue that seems to only happen when trying to use a transaction. Ive used transactions many times in the past and Im at a loss as to why im getting the stack level too deep problem. SystemStackError - stack level too deep: actionpack (3.2.13) lib/action_dispatch/middleware/reloader.rb:70:in `'' I have a StackOveflow with more detail -

I''m having trouble playing a video from my site on the iphone using send_file. It seems that I''m missing the Accept-Ranges header in my response. How can I set the Accept-Ranges header in my send_file response? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To

Hi all. I am wrting a small content management tool for my company and was trying to display some images from our file store shown below. <td> <img src="\\xx.xx.xxx.xx\xx\xx\xxx\abc.gif"/> The app was displaying the image when it is under the \public\images directory. Is there anything special we need to do to get a file from outside the root of the application? Any help

Hi, I want to offer a CSV download of data in my Rails app (eg. An "Export to Excel" link to grab the current view of tabulated data). However, I can''t seem to break-out of the Rails framework to output this non-HTML data. Even if I eliminate my layout template from my view, the most basic view (no HTML) will still wrap the output in

hey all, I''m trying to do a: send_file @file, :type => ''audio/mp3'', :disposition => ''inline'' ,:stream=>true I tried with all browsers and it always asks me to download the file or open it with a player. Is there a way to make it open in the embeded player (QT,Windows media player,Mplayer etc)? Only with konqueror if I open in new tab then I

I easily implemented the upload , using the ''attachment_fu'' plugin... I can see and open the uploaded files (a pdf file 60k and a jpeg images 28k) now I try to implement the download action in my document_controller, I wrote : def download @document = Document.find(params[:id]) send_file(@document.full_filename, :filename =>

HI, I need to know how to download any file using send_file() method.The code I have shown below is for a specific file........how ever I need it for any file. THE CODE ........ def download_files send_file(''D:/hr/Handbook.doc'', :filename => params[:filename] , :type => ''application/octet-stream'',

Hi- I''d like to load a PDF file into a page, in my controller: send_file "/path to/my.pdf", :disposition => "inline" However, instead of rendering inline, it asks to download the file. How can I display the contents without downloading? Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

I have an application which uses send_file to send a ZIP file to the client. This works nicely when it''s run on our development OS-X boxes, using mongrel from script/server, but on our production server, using mongrel behind Apache 2.2. with mod_proxy_balancer, the client gets 1 byte delivered :-( If I use wget -S to the URL in order to see the full headers I see this on

Hi, I want to keep the layout and just to a link_to_remote to update the=20 div id ''main'' Using this in the controller action send_file "public/pdf/my.pdf", :type =3D> ''application/pdf'', = :disposition=20 =3D> ''inline'', :stream =3D> false I get this. The raw pdf code sent replacing the main div with :

I''m running a Rails application with WEBrick server. We are displaying an Image from the server to the Client (Browser). First time on the browser everything looks fine, upon clicking the link, it contacts the server and displays in IE brwoser the image that was stored on the server. But in case if the image gets changed on the server(File Name being the same), then even though i

Hello list, I am trying to add functionality to my application that will allow users to download files that are not stored in a database. All the examples I have found find the file by ID. which I can not do. Here is my code from the view: <h1>Browse files for download</h1> <% form_for(:download, :url=>{ :controller=>"download",

Hello, We are using JRuby 1.5.1/ruby 1.8.7/Rails 2.3.8 with a GWT front end. I''m having an issue when attempting to send a server side .csv file to the user using rails send_file. my code is: send_file(path_to_file, type=>''text/csv'') While this is returning fine with an http status of 200, the client side save as dialog is never opening for the user to receive

Hi, I want to build a rails backed site which, in addition to some dynamic content, also comprises a number of static content files. There are some static html pages, some powerpoint presentations, and some PDF documents. I want to make sure that the user is logged in before they can access the protected content. I''ve gone through the ''Agile development with

Does anybody know if there is a big performance/time cost difference between these two methods of serving a file: ------------------------------- #1 ----------------------------------------- send_file "test.png", :type => ''image/png'', :disposition => ''inline'' ------------------------------- #2------------------------------------------

Hi, Controller code: if params[:main_image] image = Image.new image.blob = params[:main_image].read @product.main_image.destroy if @product.main_image @product.main_image = image end When I try to display the image using send_data, I get the following error: ArgumentError (string contains null byte):