Are you going to make me do this for you ? ;)
resources :datafiles do
member do
get :download
end
end
And seriously, read this stuff:
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/the-lowdown-on-routes-in-rails-3/
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html
Luke
On 2010-10-05, at 7:41 AM, Smashing wrote:
> If I comment out everything in my index action in my
> datafiles_controller
> and paste in:
> send_file('/file_uploads/Productivity.pdf', :disposition
> => :attachment)
> it works, so obviously, the send_file command is good, the
> problem is with my routing. What do I need to add to my
> routes.rb file so I can create a new download action? or perhaps
> even more generally does someone know of a good guide that
> explains routing? I thought having "resources :datafiles" in my
> routes.rb file was enough and rails would just detect any new
> actions automatically.
>
>
> On Oct 4, 1:42 pm, Smashing <[email protected]> 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
>> documentationhttp://railsmanual.org/module/ActionController::Streaming/send_file/1...
>> --
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