Theo, On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Theo R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm building an app where I keep a large number of files on the > harddisk such as RAILS_ROOT/public/data/foo.bin etc.. > > Within my database I have a field that gives me foo.bin. > > In a view how do I get a fully qualified url such as > http://localhost:3000/data/foo.bin? > I tried using link_to but that gives a relative path. You can use the URL "/data/foo.bin". Rails serves files from the public directory by default. (For example, try creating data/foo.html and going to http://localhost:3000/data/foo.html > > c:\> rails --version > Rails 2.1.1 > > Thanks in advance, > Theo > > > > -- Jim Menard, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.io.com/~jimm/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
