On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:44 PM, sagar p. <[email protected]> wrote: > Part of the Rails application, I want to let the client keep the > location string of a video file in the database at Heroku(My plan is to > deploy the application at Heroku). So, when the client wants to access > his or her file, the Rails application gets the location string from the > database and opens the matching local file from his or her computer. Is > this possible???
You wish to keep the path of a file that exists on the user's local machine in your database in the cloud, and pass it back to the user? I cannot begin to see how this would be possible unless your user had a server running on their localhost that could serve up the file. Trying to set a URL like `file:///home/username/somefile` cannot work when you set it in a web page: <a href="file:///home/username/somefile">somefile</a> does not work when your web page is being served from elsewhere. Try it. There are extremely good reasons for this. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
