From: Belorion <belorion@...>
Date: 2005-01-26T05:51:57+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby cgi and forms question

I highly recommend checking out this site:

http://www.zytrax.com/tech/lang/ruby/#upload

Also, I had some issues with image upload, storage, and retrieval. 
These issues where discussed in this thread, which includes loading
binary data for display in a browser:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/924b262641d661e4/172f1b0d03610b78?q=mysql+binary+belorion&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.lang.ruby%2Fsearch%3Fgroup%3Dcomp.lang.ruby%26q%3Dmysql+binary+belorion%26qt_g%3D1%26searchnow%3DSearch+this+group%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#172f1b0d03610b78

I can't say for sure, but a first glance I think you need 

image << uploadImage.read

Give that a shot, let us know if you get it working.



It's a similar discussion when I was going through the same stuff you
are right now.


On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:44:20 +0900, Matthew Margolis
<mrmargolis@wisc.edu> wrote:
> Ok that worked.  Now my problem is just getting the uploaded image into
> a file.  I am trying to do
> 
> uploadImage = cgi['upload']
> if uploadImage
>   ucomments = cgi.params['uploadcomment']
>   ucomments.each {|com| com.gsub!(" ", "_")}
>   image = File.new("#{ucomments}.jpg", "w+")
>   image << uploadImage
>   image.close
> end
> 
> But I always end up with a 0 length .jpg though it is named right.
> cgi['upload'] is StringIO.
> 
> -Matthew Margolis
> 
> 
> Belorion wrote:
> 
> >If I recall correctly, multi-part form data comes as type StringIO,
> >not String.  Check out
> >http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/stringio/rdoc/ for RDoc
> >documentation on StringIO.  You can probably get the string by
> >StringIO.read.
> >
> >require 'stringio'
> >a = StringIO.new( "foo")
> >a.read
> >
> >will give "foo"
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 02:55:14 +0900, MATTHEW REUBEN MARGOLIS
> ><mrmargolis@wisc.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I have a form that contains both text fields and a file field for
> >>uploading.  The form is set to post to a ruby script on my server.  The
> >>script works(excluding file  uploading) when I delete
> >>ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" from the form tag but if that is
> >>present(and it needs to be for the image upload to work) then ruby cgi
> >>chokes on a gsub for one of my text field parameters called comment.
> >>
> >>imageadmin.rb:14: private method `gsub!' called for
> >>#<StringIO:0x20221278> (NoMethodError)
> >>
> >>Anyone have some ideas for how I can make this work?
> >>
> >>Here is the form code (it is from an eruby file)
> >>-----------------------------------------------------
> >>% imageArray = Dir.glob("*.jpg").sort!
> >>% commentArray = imageArray.collect {|image| image[4..-5]}
> >>% commentArray.collect {|image| image.gsub!("_", " ")}
> >>
> >><FORM  ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" action="imageadmin.rb" method="post">
> >><%imageArray.length.times do |count|%>
> >>  <img src="<%=imageArray[count]%>">
> >>  <BR />
> >>  Comment:<input type="text" name="comment"
> >>value="<%=commentArray[count]%>">
> >>  <BR />
> >>  Number:<input type="text" name="order"
> >>value="<%=imageArray[count][0..2] %>">
> >>  <BR />
> >>  Delete:<input type="checkbox" name="delete"
> >>value="<%=imageArray[count]%>">
> >>  <BR />
> >><%end%>
> >><BR />
> >><BR />
> >><input type="file" value="upload">
> >>Comment:<input type="text" name="uploadcomment" value="">
> >>
> >><BR />
> >><input type="submit" value="Submit">
> >></FORM>
> >>-----------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>And here is the script itself.  I apologize for the lack of comments and
> >>that it isn't as short as it could be.  I am going to clean it up tonight.
> >>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>#!/usr/bin/env ruby
> >>$stderr = File.open("error.log", "w+")
> >>print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
> >>require 'cgi'
> >>cgi = CGI.new
> >>
> >>deleteArray = cgi.params['delete']
> >>imageArray = Dir.glob("*.jpg").sort!
> >>oldArray = Dir.glob("*.jpg").sort!
> >>commentArray = cgi.params['comment']
> >>
> >>#####Here is where I get the error#####
> >>commentArray.each {|com| com.gsub!(" ", "_")}
> >>numberArray = cgi.params['order']
> >>
> >>count = imageArray.length
> >>
> >>count.times do |x|
> >>  imageArray[x].sub!(/^\d\d\d/, numberArray[x])
> >>end
> >>
> >>count.times do |x|
> >>  imageArray[x] = numberArray[x] + "_" + commentArray[x] + ".jpg"
> >>end
> >>
> >>count.times do |x|
> >>  File.rename(oldArray[x], imageArray[x])
> >>end
> >>
> >>#uploadImage = cgi['upload']
> >>#if uploadImage
> >>#  ucomments = cgi.params['uploadcomment']
> >>#  ucomments.each {|com| com.gsub!(" ", "_")}
> >>#  image = File.new("#{ucomments}.jpg", "w+")
> >>#  image << uploadImage
> >>#  image.close
> >>#end
> >>
> >>for thing in deleteArray
> >>  File.delete(thing)
> >>end
> >>
> >>print "<meta  HTTP-EQUIV=\"REFRESH\" content=\"0; url=admin.rhtml\">"
> >>
> >>-------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>Thank you,
> >>Matthew Margolis
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> 
>