From: David Palm <dvdplm@...>
Date: 2009-02-02T03:34:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: send_file with Ruby 1.9.1 only works for text files

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 02:10:00 +0900, Mark  Watson wrote:
> When I use Ruby 1.8.6 my Rails app works fine. Under Ruby 1.9.1 in
> development mode Webrick is trying to "split" binary data and throws
> an error:
> 
> #<ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8>

Is webrick part of the standard distribution? (been years since I used it!) Does its tests run?

Does Thin work for you? I've been running Ruby 1.9.1 for a while now on Thin and it works pretty well. I haven't sent any binary data yet though.

> ["/Users/markw/bin/ruby19/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/
> webrick_server.rb:136:in `split'", "/Users/markw/bin/ruby19/lib/ruby/
> gems/1.9.1/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/webrick_server.rb:136:in
> `extract_header_and_body'", "/Users/markw/bin/ruby19/lib/ruby/gems/
> 1.9.1/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/webrick_server.rb:109:in
> `handle_dispatch'", "/Users/markw/bin/ruby19/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/
> rails-2.2.2/lib/webrick_server.rb:74:in `service'", "/Users/markw/bin/
> ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/httpserver.rb:111:in `service'", "/Users/
> markw/bin/ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/httpserver.rb:70:in `run'", "/
> Users/markw/bin/ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/server.rb:183:in `block
> in start_thread'"]
> 
> As much as possible I am trying convert all my Ruby code and Rails
> apps to Ruby 1.9.x and this is one of the last problems that I am
> having problems working around.
> 
> I have tried several combinations of send_file calls like:
> 
> send_file(filename, :filename => asset.filename, :type => :jpeg)
> 
> and none work - unless I am sending a plain text file.
> 
> This is obviously a unicode problem.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
>