From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-06-05T02:26:26+09:00
Subject: Re: download a file

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Fredy wrote:
| Hello
| I have a file on the server and i want it to be downloadable by users
| when they press on a link. i tried send_date, but it created a new
| file instead of grabbing the existing one.
| Here is the code
|
|  def download
|  send_data(  path=>"public/files/test.doc" , :filename => "test.doc",
| :type => "text/doc", :disposition => "attachment")
|  end
|
| any help will be appreciated :)

Is this Rails, Merb, or...?

Anyway, if it is a framework, you might be better off asking the
community around the framework for hints and help. ;)

Anyway, if you are using Rails you could use link_to, for example, as
described here:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToLinkToStaticFile

Note: The code presented there could be vulnerable to code injection, so
proceed with caution.

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