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Hello guys, I am building a photo website and I have some questions before I really start programming the site. My system will be Debian + lighttpd + mysql +fastcgi + ImageMagick I plan to use file_column for image handling/verification and thumbnail creation. My question is; I need to store images in a place outside of webroot so only registered members can see them. To serve them secure

Hi all, I am newbie to Ruby and web programming as well. My show.rhtml is like, . .. ... <% require ''win32ole'' %> <% ie = WIN32OLE.new(''InternetExplorer.Application'') %> <% ie.visible = true %> <% ie.gohome %> ... .. . At server, when I access http://.../show it''ll open Iexplorer.exe as expected, but when I access same from

Hello, I have an application that should be able to export a list of users as CSV. So I put Mime::Type.register "text/csv", :csv into my environment.rb, and added this code to my UserController''s index action: format.csv do require ''csv'' CSV::Writer.generate(csv_string = "", '','') do |csv| csv

i''m doing a site for someone that has a form set up to collect contact information from the user. i installed the vpim gem and was hoping to give my client a way to download all of the contact''s information as a vcard. using the examples, i was able to get it working in ruby, but i''m not quite sure how to generate and download a vcard on the fly. has anyone done

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I would like to extract an image BLOB from my database and display it alongside some other information on my ''edit'' page. I read the information here http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/HowtoUploadFiles and that was really helpful. However, it still isn''t clear to me how I would get access to the image in my views if

I''m looking to do something similar to the "secret URLs" in Rails Recipes, however, with file downloads. I want to avoid providing direct URLs to people if possible. I have files on disk in public/, so it would be good if each user got a "unique" URL to each file that they are permitted to see (dealt with by a user_id/file_id table). Then they are only allowed

Hello all, i have been searching for some time now on how to upload files and then display them to be downloaded, haven''t had any luck. it seems all the documentation is for uploading and displaying pictures. is this the same thing? i''m lost... any help would be greatly appreciated. Jon -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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

Short question: is there way to tell EM to actually send data after send_data call? I''m building a file transferring app. I send Mashal.dump''ed metadata first, and then - the file contents (chunked). I found a silly bug: receive_data() gets marshalled metadata and the first chunk of the file in a single variable. Like that: c1.send_data("meta")

I am using eventmachine 0.8.1 on windows XP and am having very odd problems. This snippet of code gives the error that follows it. class EchoServer def receive_data data puts data send_data ">>>you sent: #{data}" if data =~ /quit/i puts "quitting" close_connection EventMachine::stop_event_loop end end end

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, I''m trying to figure out the best way to protect images uploaded by users who may wish to keep them private. For example, if they are uploaded in the default file_column location (/public/blah/blah/1/) then someone can simply type the URL http://www.blah.com/blah/blah/1 and get the image. I can store the images in a non-public directory in the rails app (ie: /railsapp/images/X/)

Hi all I made a pdf file in ruby and to display it used the method send_data like # send_data pdf.render, :filename => "Hello.pdf",:type => "application/pdf" # Now I want to open it in another window or as a popup. How can I achieve it? Thanks to all. Sainaba. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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

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:

Hello, First of all I''m new to working with sockets, so the problems I''m having are probably because of my lack of understanding. What I''m trying to accomplish is to create a mac os x client gui to ruby-debug. When a application that includes ruby-debug is started, it starts listening for 2 connections; 8989, 8990 The connection is made by calling the connectToApp

Hi All, I want to generate pdf with css. I am using princely plugin. This is code which I written def pdf prince = Prince.new() html_string = render_to_string(:template => ''/users/paid_invoice.pdf.erb'') send_data( prince.pdf_from_string(html_string), :filename => ''some_document.pdf'', :type =>

Hi All, I generate a pdf report that contains a table. The report is 14 pages, and it takes 20s to be rendered. Most of these 20s are spend in the render_on method. I wonder if it is possible to speed up that process? To create the report, I do the following: 1) Setup pdf layout: # Setup pdf layout pdf.select_font("Helvetica", { :encoding => "WinAnsiEncoding"})

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''m writing an app for a blood exam center, where people can go and check the results without going physically there. The customers log in the system and a pdf download is offered to them. The downloads though will not be stored in the db but in the filesystem. How can I allow people to download files only if they''re authorised? I obviously can''t store all the files in