Thanks Philip, this is better .. it seems a little bit more complicated that I thought
I need to get a file that I download from this url.... this not the file url, but an html page to download the file attachment['url'] :: "http://www.pivotaltracker.com/resource/download/ 579633" and then pass the encoded content of the downloaded file as data into the xml , so it'll become an attachment for another ticketing system.... =>, the open(remote_file ).read doesn't give me the file, but the html... so, I need to to : 1 - 'execute' http://www.pivotaltracker.com/resource/download/579633 to get and store the file locally 2- read the file locally , encode it and pass the content as a value in the xml any idea on how to do that ? On 14 sep, 19:39, Philip Hallstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am trying to send data from a remote file attachment.... > > ------- > > attachment['url'] = "http://www.mydomain.com/resource/download/54643"; > > > I wrote a class RemoteFile < ::Tempfile to fetch to remote data > > ------ > > remote_file = RemoteFile.new(attachment['url'] ) > > so, I get a tempfile > >>> #<File:/var/folders/NK/NKfWCW3eEVCg0ERnpPsnME+++TI/-Tmp-/ > > 93806edfbb0daf7303347d7faaffc2d0f5b22a1d20100914-5545-1y66mt8-0> > > > now I would like to pass the content of this temp file as a base64 > > value > > ... > > ticketing_xml << "<value><base64>#{ tmp_data }</base64></value>" > > ... > > > how should I do write the tmp_data ? > > > should I use : open(remote_file ).read > > Sure. If these remote files are big, your Rails processes are going to eat a > lot of ram. > > Instead of reading things into a temp file first, look into open-uri so you > can simply read it directly from the remote host into your xml string... > > -philip -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
