[LRUG] Flex/Rails and downloading data to a file

[Jordi Noguera Leon]

hey!

@Neil, I don't quite see what you're trying to say... The thing is so far
there aren't any files, I have the contents of the file that should be
downloaded, but from here to downloading an actual file I have no clue how
to do it...

@Ken, I've used send_data in other parts of the app where Flex wasn't used
and calling it caused a dialog to appear in order to save a file (something
like send_data(@my_data, :filename => :whatever)). So, what I was expecting
was send_data to start a file download.

Jordi



On 28 April 2010 14:58, Kenneth Lee <kenfodder at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hey,
>
> send_data sends binary data, not getting the expected results doesn't tell
> me much, can you find out what you are getting back? content-type etc...
> Also what are you expecting back, json, xml, a file?
>
> I recommend using curl or even a browser to talk to rails via http and see
> if the data is what you expect your Flex app to receive as really it's just
> acting as an API.
>
> Also for the invalid auth token just remove protect_from_forgery from you
> application controller, or at least that is where you should start as that
> is where the error is originating from I believe.
>
> Hope this gets you started.
>
> Ken
>
> Jordi Noguera Leon wrote:
>
> Hi there!
>
>  I'm struggling to solve the following problem. We have an app with a flex
> front end that displays some charts, each chart has a link to download the
> data displayed in that chart. To do this I tried to call a rails method that
> called send_data, but it didn't produce the expected results. It'd be good
> if there was an easy way to do this directly from Flex...
>
>  I've also been trying to follow the steps explained in this article<http://flexonrails.net/?p=5>,
> but I'm getting an Invalid Auth token error...
>
>  Does anyone have an idea?
>
>  Cheers,
> Jordi
>
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