The “x_sendfile” argument on the send_file method in Rails 2.1 is not well thought off as it has an impact in development mode also. I guess most Rails coders won’t have Apache proxying their mongrels in dev mode and so they don’t get to see any images or files but the plain path information.
I’ll guess i stay with the x_send_file solution as described here.
Just a quick reminder for myself:
With the default installation of an Oracle Express (Oracle XE) comes two shell script with all the necessary environment variables to use sql*plus, exp, imp and the like on the command line:
source /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/oracle_env.sh
respectively
source /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/oracle_env.csh
Some days ago, Ruby On Rails 2.1 saw the light of day and as usual, i eagerly updated my Daily Fratze project.
I had some minor problems due to an old version of will_paginate and some major ones with my use of PDF::Writer.
The PDF::Writer library still works very well but the the instructions here (under PDF::Writer (Austin Ziegler) on how the register an “rpdf” template handler don’t apply anymore due to changes in the Rails template system but can easily be fixed:
In environment.rb change
ActionView::Base.register_template_handler 'rpdf', ActionView::PDFRender
to
ActionView::Template.register_template_handler 'rpdf', ActionView::PDFRender
And also change your ActionView::PDFRender class to:
module ActionView # :nodoc: require 'pdf/writer' class PDFRender PAPER = 'A4' include ApplicationHelper include ActionView::Helpers::AssetTagHelper include ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper include ActionView::Helpers::TagHelper include ActionView::Helpers::UrlHelper def initialize(action_view) @action_view = action_view end # Render the PDF def render(template, local_assigns = {}) @action_view.controller.headers["Content-Type"] ||= 'application/pdf' # Retrieve controller variables @action_view.controller.instance_variables.each do |v| instance_variable_set(v, @action_view.controller.instance_variable_get(v)) end pdf = ::PDF::Writer.new( :paper => PAPER ) pdf.compressed = true if RAILS_ENV != 'development' eval template.source, nil, "#{@action_view.base_path}/#{@action_view.first_render}.#{@action_view.finder.pick_template_extension(@action_view.first_render)}" pdf.render end def self.compilable? false end def compilable? self.class.compilable? end end end
And enjoy happy PDF generation 