From: Milo Thurston <nospam@...>
Date: 2004-07-08T00:27:35+09:00
Subject: Downloadable file "on the fly"

I'd like to have a cgi script produce it's output
as a downloadable .csv file rather than displaying it on screen.
In perl, I used to do it this way:

@stuff = qw(some items in an array);
print $cgi->header(-TYPE => 'text/plain',
                   -EXPIRES => 'now',
                   -ATTACHMENT => 'download.csv');
foreach (@stuff) { print "$_\cI"; } 
exit 0;

Any suggestions on doing the same with ruby? A direct translation
of the code doesn't seem to be very effective - I get only a blank
page.
Thanks for any suggestions.


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