similar to: send_file but not send_data?

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------------------------------------------

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 have a form_remote_tag that calls a method to print out a csv file for download. If I tell the form_remote_tag to update a div the data comes up in that div, but otherwise I can''t get the browser to acknowledge the sent file. >From view: <%= form_remote_tag :url => {:action => "csv_dump" }%> <%= submit_tag "Download Complete List" ,:name

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

I''m a newbie having trouble using send_data to send a jpeg file to the browser for display in an html img tag. This is the relevant code from my controller (photos_controller.rb): def retrieve @photo = Photo.find(params[:id]) send_data File.read(@photo.abs_img_path), :type => "image/ jpeg", :disposition => "inline" end def download @photo =

I''m trying to display a generated .png plot via send_data(), but it results in a server error "invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII" error. I''m pretty sure this means that I need to specify the encoding somewhere, but I haven''t been able to figure out where or how to do so. Some particulars: I''m running gnuplot through a pipe to generate a plot in .png

Dears, Got a controller witch do a send_data for displaying a chart. like : send_data(g.to_blob, :filename => "any.png", :type => ''image/png'', :disposition=> ''inline'') I actually do a <img src="http://myhost:3000/stats/make_graph" /> Is there any way more clean to do that ? At minima don''t hardcode the beginning

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):

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 =>

Anyone know how to send a file/data to the user agent (download it) using #send_file or #send_data, *and* render a new page in the same action? This just sends the file and doesn''t render the page: def gimme ... send_data(our_data, :filename => ''output.csv'', :disposition => ''attachment'') end And this will give a Double-Render error:

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''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

I''m trying to display an image in a view from MySQL, but I''m not sure where to put the send_data call. Any help would be great. :) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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

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/.

Hi, looking for something that simple, but can''t find it. I got: outfile = File.open(''teams.txt'', ''wb'') CSV::Writer.generate(outfile) do |csv| for team in @teams csv << [team.id, team.name] end end outfile.close send_file "teams.txt", :filename => "teams.txt",:disposition =>

My application accepts a form to create multiple large(100''s of MB) temporary files and then zip''s them up to send off to a user. I have the files constructed, and the zipping working. The problem is that if I use send_file to send the zip off to the user, I cannot delete the file afterwards as it seems send_file forks off another process and deletes the file before the

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

Hi, for those with experience of Gruff module: suppose I want to send image from server straight to the browser (as example on gruff web site): send_data(g.to_blob, :disposition => ''inline'', :type => ''image/png'', :filename => "gruff.png") the server seems sending this binary data ok, but I am having

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