similar to: How to download any file using send_file() method

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'',

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 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

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

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

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

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

Hello guys, I am having the option to download certain folders on my app in zip format. So every time a user requests one I''m doing a system call to zip the folder (ex: system(''cd ''+path+'' && zip ...) and then the send_file method to send it. What happens is that I''m keeping track of disk space so I need to delete the zip immediately. I was

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

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, 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

I''m trying to add a link to download a zip file. I created a controller method that makes the call to send_file: def getzip send_file ''file.zip'' end When I navigate to this link I get a MissingFile exception. The file definitely exists (and U triple-checked paths and spelling) and the permissions are 644. I tried moving it to the /public folder and updating the

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)

Looking at the code for ActionController#send_file I see that it is using ruby to send the file contents. Linux supports a sendfile() OS call. The implementation of Linux sendfile() is extremely fast and very CPU efficient, far faster than what can be done in user space. Does Windows support a sendfile() equivalent call? I haven''t been working with ruby long enough to know how it handles

I was getting some weird errors from gccld and traced it to path construction in isBytecodeLPath. If the path doesn't end with a /, then Path just tries to stick filenames onto it, which is not so good. It would be more efficient to just add a "/" to the path once, I guess. Also, I had to touch lib/System/Path.cpp to get my changes to Path.inc noticed; it seems the build system

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

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

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 all, I am using send_file("/path/to/my/file")to send a file from the server to a client. The file is not empty but when displayed on the client, it is totally blank. In windows system, it''s working properly, the problem is only with a linux server -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.