From: Joost Diepenmaat <joost@...>
Date: 2005-04-21T05:05:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Newb CGI Question

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:54:24AM +0900, Michael Buffington wrote:
> So I thought I had CGI in Ruby figured out, but I'm stumped on the following:
> 
> I want use Ruby to dynamically serve an image. The image tag would
> look like <img src="file.rb?id=200">, where 200 is the id for an
> image.
> 
> So here's what I have (I'm trading embarrassment for guidance):
> 
> require "cgi"
> cgi = CGI.new("html4")
> cgi.out('image/png')
> File.read('200.png')

Shouldn't that be

cgi.header("image/png") {
    File.read('200.png');
}

Or something similar?

J.