From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-08-28T05:47:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Pros/Cons of Turbogears/Rails?

kenneth.m.mcdonald@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> P.S. If I wanted to provide an image by streaming the
> file data directly over the connection, rather than by
> referring to an image file, how would I do that? I'd
> like to build code that would allow images to be assembled
> into a single-file photo album (zip or bsddb file), and
> so can't refer to them as individual image files.

Just output the encoded / compressed byte stream the image manipulation 
library of choice can surely provide to the HTTP connection? Setting the 
MIME type of the response accordingly. You might want to look up hacks 
on how to do efficient byte-pushing for this, standard Ruby IO might or 
might not be optimal.

David Vallner