comp.lang.ruby

Zev Blut

10/31/2006 8:08:00 AM

Hello David,

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:34:56 +0900, dc <lister@pikkle.com> wrote:

> I need to pass a user a chunk of swf (flash) data: ie a full-flash page.
> without using a redirect, is there a quick way to read a file and send
> as a chunk of binary data back to the browser? PHP had some type of
> "pass-through" function.
>
> otherwise i guess i have file open, read as a string, and then use ..
> ? to write as a buffered output to the browser?

There are a few solutions, but it depends upon your environment.
Are you using plain Rails, Ruby CGI, mod_ruby, Apache, Lighttpd?

Here are few links that might help:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoSen...

http://blog.lighttpd.net/articles/2006/07/02/...

http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2006/03/27/image-serving-wi...

http://rubyonrails.org/api/classes/ActionController/Stre...

Best,
Zev