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Quirky stuff here, The current setup works fine for Firefox 3.6 and IE 8 but balks on earlier IEs. The files are PDFs, .doc files, and other binaries but up to several MB: A. the users'' problem is a minor IE7 quirk: it works to download files from clicking links, but if you use the URL instead then the browser stops after a fraction of a second. Refreshing or hitting Return again

Hello all, I am have an app that is hosted on heroku (rails 4 | ruby 2.0) that I am using paperclip-dropbox to upload attachments to a blog. I have created a download link for people who read the blog to be able to download the attachments but I am not able to get the file to actually download via the browser. I am curious if anyone knows what could be the issue. My process is I download the

I''ve had a right fun few days at work trying to figure out why our Rails app (which isn''t under very heavy load) kept eating memory and bringing our server to our knees. Eventually I traced it to send_file (which was in a way a relief as it wasn''t down to my coding ;) -- every time a user started downloading, the memory consumed by the app would jump, and

Ben wrote: > API is your friend. > http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Streaming.html#M000091 > send_file I put this code block in files_controller.rb def send_file(path, options = {}) #:doc: raise MissingFile, "Cannot read file #{path}" unless File.file?(path) and File.readable?(path) options[:length] ||= File.size(path)

Hello, I''m working on a download service which grants users a one-time-download access to files. The idea is to write an entry to a database table after a successful download that "locks" the download link for the user. After doing some quick tests with send_file I noticed that send_file does not block until the user has downloaded the full file, but proceeds with the

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

Or perhaps I am stumbling in newbie fashion (tho I have active_merchant and a store site basically up and running in development mode - still I don''t feel I always understand what is going on.) So, when I have send_file(filename, :type => ''application/x-zip'') redirect :action => index the send_file seems to hang, rather than complete. I''m deducing

All, I have an existing form that calls an action which in turn creates a PDF and sends it to the browser using send_file. I want to change this form to use form_remote_tag so that I can set a progress bar and once the PDF is finished, the progress bar hides and the PDF opens. The send_file data is being sent to the browser, but not displayed anywhere. When I use a regular form post, it

While working with the newly fixed output compression plugin, one of the devs in my team discovered that it breaks with send_file(). So if you are using send_file() in your application you must get the fixed file I''ve put at: http://devblog.famundo.com/output_compression.rb. The change is actually in checking for the Content-Disposition header added by send_file(). See the full writeup

Hi, I''ve been using send_file in my Rails application with WEBrick happily to send files of various sizes and kinds. The same code fails to send anything but a 500 error when run under Apache, and a log file message "warning: syswrite for buffered IO". Looking back through the mailing list archives I see that there have been send_file bugs in the past. Can some knowledgeable

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'',

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 am directory listing and in that listing I have certain files and sub directories, now when I click on the files it should download that particular file but I am not able to accomplish it, and I have got to use send_file() method. In the send file Code shown below I have made use of the address of one of the files directly so when I click the link of any file it downloads it. THE CODE

Has anyone managed to use send_file with :stream => true? I''m currently still developing using Rails 1.1.2 on windows xp so might be OS problem. But google results show this also happen on linux hosts. I think using send_file with :stream => false is pointless. Since send_data does exactly the same thing. Or am I mistaken? Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''ve got a Rails 1.1 app where people can click a link to download a custom-generated file. The link to "Download Zip" goes to / controller/get_zip. That action looks like this: def get_zip @cart = find_cart ids = Array.new @cart.songs.each do |song| ids.push song.id end args = ids.join(" ") zipfile =

I am developing in a windows xp environment running WEBrick and MySQL, RoR 0.13.1. I am trying to retrieve the file that I uploaded via Rails using the send_file() method. Instead of returning the file, the file''s contents are being printed out to the WEBrick console, the browser hangs for a while, and then an empty file is returned from the download dialog box (Firefox 1.0.7/IE

Hello, I am trying to use send_file in my controller to serve up specific content: (.doc, ..xls) Seems to work fine in IE, but in FF (1.0.7, on Windows) after the file d/ls and the app (MS Word, MSExcel) opens up with the content, a blank window comes to the front (gets focus). Any idea how to prevent this? Do I need a redirect_to after the send_file in my controller''s download_file

Hello Railers, I''ve been trying to send files using send_file using latest «stable» gem. My rails runs on webrick, and I use latest pragmatic programmer installer on win32. No database backend yet. Nevertheless, everytime I send_file or I file.read() some file I''ve just opened, ruby crashes (I can read in my log "ruby bug... the runtime has requested...." but the

Hi, I''m developing a Rails application that (amongst other things) lets users download media files. These files range in size from a few kilobytes up to several gigabytes. All this development is taking place with Rails 1.0 on a Solaris host with Ruby 1.8.2 and Rails mode set to "development". I''m using the Rails send_file method to send each file with these

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 =>