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

[Jon Gilbraith]

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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