Take a look at: http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/mime-types.shtml
There are several registered mime types for zip and gzip files. These will give you valid values for :content_type. On Oct 16, 2:07 pm, GregD <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, it wont get THAT large. Maybe 200K. But, I see your point. I > don't have have a place to host the file right now. I'd like to send > it compressed since it is plain text. I was even thinking of sending > an xls file summary, but that would be larger. > > Does anyone know if I compress it into another file using ZLib gzip > format, how to send it? Actually, any binary file. The examples all > show File.read and will that work with binary files. I would think > not. > > I'll look into hosting the 2 files instead. But, it would be nice to > see an example of sending something other than an image file. > > GregD > > On Oct 16, 1:38 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l...@andreas- > > s.net> wrote: > > Greg Ditrick wrote: > > > [...] > > > > The attachment is > > > supporting data or db that I used to create the email. It is actually > > > a YAML flat file DB. It is quite long and will grow each week up to a > > > point. Most everyone I'm emailing will not care to see the data > > > within their email, but a few of my fellow "geeks" will, so a file > > > would be best. > > > How big will this thing grow? If most recipients don't want to see it, > > why are you wasting their disk space with it? If I were one of your > > recipients and you were sending me weekly messages with big attachments, > > I think I'd be pretty upset. I'd suggest that it would be better to > > provide a URL where the full data file can be downloaded by those who > > are interested. > > > Best, > > -- > > Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org > > [email protected] > > -- > > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
