excellent, ty On Oct 5, 9:39 am, Luke Cowell <[email protected]> wrote: > resources :datafiles will create some default routes, but they don't include > download. You need to add a member route for the download action. > > http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/the-lowdown-on-routes-in-rails-3/http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html > > Luke > > On 2010-10-04, at 11:42 AM, Smashing wrote: > > > > > I'm perty new to rails and I have an app where I want to have secure > > file downloads, so I can't just drop the files in public/data, I need > > to use send_file. I found the post (pasted at bottom) that explained > > how to do this. When I go to implement it, I wanted to try the > > simplest thing first, so I have this code: > > > datafiles_controller.rb: > > def download > > send_file('/file_uploads/Productivity.pdf', :disposition > > => :attachment) > > end > > datafiles/index.html.erb > > <%=button_to "Download File", :action=>'download'%> > > > when I load index.html it gives the error "No route matches > > {:action=>"download", :controller=>"datafiles"}" > > so even though "resources :datafiles" is already in my routes.rb file, > > I added: get "datafiles/download" > > now the page loads, I click the "Download File" button and it gives me > > the error "No route matches "/datafiles/download"" > > > I vaguely remember reading that every def in a controller should > > correspond to it's own erb file, so I created Views/datafiles/ > > download.erb as a blank page. > > But that didn't make any difference. I'm at a loss as to what I'm > > doing wrong, can someone give me some suggestions? > > > post refered to above: > > -------------------------------------------------------- > >http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/... > >> Is there a way to retrieve a file off the server or hard drive? I > >> have a program that creates a file and I would like a button to > >> retrieve the file so the user can save it somewhere. Not ajax right > >> now. > > > # view > > <%=button_to "Download File", :action=>'download'%> > > # controller > > def download > > send_file(path_to_file, :disposition => :attachment) > > end > > send_file documentation > >http://railsmanual.org/module/ActionController::Streaming/send_file/1... > > -- > > > -- > > 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.
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