Hi Philip this url is a route to Pivotal web app... when I use "http://www.pivotaltracker.com/resource/download/579633" in my browser, I get a corresponding file attachment downloaded... so, this is an url to Pivotal web app, which execute the action :download in the controller Resource send the file .... which open in my browser
so I cannot use this url as a file location url (with open-uri ) and I don't get the file location ... seems to be redirected to an amazon S3 location where the file is located.... ( yes, the response is You have been redirected blah blah) On 15 sep, 18:13, Philip Hallstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 14, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Erwin wrote: > > > > > > > Thanks Philip, this is better .. it seems a little bit more > > complicated that I thought > > > I need to get a file that I download from this url.... this not the > > file url, but an html page to download the file > > attachment['url'] :: "http://www.pivotaltracker.com/resource/download/ > > 579633" > > > and then pass the encoded content of the downloaded file as data > > into the xml , so it'll become an attachment for another ticketing > > system.... > > > =>, the open(remote_file ).read doesn't give me the file, but the > > html... > > > so, I need to to : > > 1 - 'execute'http://www.pivotaltracker.com/resource/download/579633 > > to get and store the file locally > > I'm not understanding what this step means... I've never used pivotaltracker > though.. does going to that page result in a file being downloaded? Is the > download the HTTP response? Or triggered somehow else? If it's the response > open-uri should be able to handle it. I don't recall how well open-uri > handles redirects so double check that. > > -p > > > > > 2- read the file locally , encode it and pass the content as a value > > in the xml > > > any idea on how to do that ? > > > On 14 sep, 19:39, Philip Hallstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> I am trying to send data from a remote file attachment.... > >>> ------- > >>> attachment['url'] = "http://www.mydomain.com/resource/download/54643" > > >>> I wrote a class RemoteFile < ::Tempfile to fetch to remote data > >>> ------ > >>> remote_file = RemoteFile.new(attachment['url'] ) > >>> so, I get a tempfile > >>>>> #<File:/var/folders/NK/NKfWCW3eEVCg0ERnpPsnME+++TI/-Tmp-/ > >>> 93806edfbb0daf7303347d7faaffc2d0f5b22a1d20100914-5545-1y66mt8-0> > > >>> now I would like to pass the content of this temp file as a base64 > >>> value > >>> ... > >>> ticketing_xml << "<value><base64>#{ tmp_data }</base64></value>" > >>> ... > > >>> how should I do write the tmp_data ? > > >>> should I use : open(remote_file ).read > > >> Sure. If these remote files are big, your Rails processes are going to > >> eat a lot of ram. > > >> Instead of reading things into a temp file first, look into open-uri so > >> you can simply read it directly from the remote host into your xml > >> string... > > >> -philip > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. -- 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.

