On Jan 6, 3:35 pm, Alpha Blue <[email protected]> wrote: > I created a special flash file that will read tag cloud variables from > an external text file which will be located in the same directory as the > swf. The tags are kept in the database and once per day a > definitions.txt file is created with the population of the tags, the > ref, and the weight. > > My swf file and the external file called definitions.txt are located in > public\swf\. > > The swf will call a method of get and need to be able to retrieve the > data from that file. How can I create a named route in routes.rb to > accomplish this without a controller present for this action? > > public\swf\example.swf > public\swf\definitions.txt > > example.swf will attempt to load definitions.txt from the same directory > > Any help would be appreciated. I thought I was pretty savvy with routes > but I've hit a brick wall. > > Thanks. > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
This isn't what rails routing does (half of routing is pointless here, as with a sane setup the request never even hits the rails app). If you only want a handy method of linking to the text file from your app, just create a helper method or a constant.
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