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

[Jon Gilbraith]

Yes, in my case I was serving up existing files (I was using send_file
rather than serving them statically to allow access control) but I'd expect
there not to be any difference from the client's point of view.

On 29 April 2010 10:11, Jordi Noguera Leon <jordinoguera83 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wait, you've used send_file? Do you delete the file after it's downloaded?
>
>
> On 29 April 2010 09:07, Jon Gilbraith <jon at professionalnerd.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, that's similar to how I've successfully served up files to a Flex app
>> (granted with send_file rather than send_data, and I don't know any of the
>> details of the Flex side of the implementation).
>>
>>
>> On 28 April 2010 17:23, Jordi Noguera Leon <jordinoguera83 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> So, this *send_data @data, :type => 'application/x-amf', :filename =>
>>> "@filename, :disposition => 'inline' *should work?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 28 April 2010 16:23, Jon Gilbraith <jon at professionalnerd.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jordi, you didn't mention the disposition there and if you don't specify
>>>> 'inline' it'll default to attachment and prompt you to save rather than
>>>> stream.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 28 April 2010 15:56, Jordi Noguera Leon <jordinoguera83 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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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