On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Mark Sobkowicz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Matt, thanks for your help with my last issue, the <after-submit> tag. That
> part of my app works great now.
>
> What I have now is a Downloads model, where I have a list of files that
> students can download. I put the files in public/files, and in the model
> have a url field, so an instance might have a url like "chapter2.pdf". I'd
> like the index of downloads to show a list of links to these files, but since
> I cannot embed ruby in the <a> tag, I'm not sure how to go about it.
>
Side note: if you're going to be uploading a lot of files, take a look
at Paperclip. There's a good tutorial about it on the cookbook, and it
will simplify things.
You can actually use Ruby in tag attributes, just not ERB (the <% %>
tags). Try something like this:
<a href="/files/#{this.url}">Some text</a>
--Matt Jones
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