Thanks that did it. I am caching the image - though since it's a
webcam image that needs refreshed to stay current the cache is short
lived.
def image
@result = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse('http://
link_to_image.jpg') ).body
end
index.html
<img src="webcam/image'>
image.html.erb
@result
On Jun 7, 1:07 am, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Jun 7, 7:05 am, Kim <[email protected]> wrote:> Really? Do you really
> think there isn't a reason why I am not just
> > using an image_tag? Really?
>
> Seems like a legitimate question to me.
>
> > The image is protected and I have been given access to pull it from my
> > web server to use in my app.
>
> > Looking for help in answering my original post please. Thanks.
>
> All an image is is a stream of bytes, which you have already got.
> Furthermore the image is fetched by a separate request. If you really
> need to go down this route you should probably craft the <img> tag to
> point at a particular controller/action in your app and from that
> action make your http request and return the bytes you get. You might
> also want to cache the image on your server.
>
> Or perhaps some rewrite rules to proxy those requests to the origin
> server might make more sense
>
> Fred
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