How to get the urls to public folder

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Hi all,

I'm building an app where I keep a large number of files on the harddisk such as RAILS_ROOT/public/data/foo.bin etc..

Within my database I have a field that gives me foo.bin.

In a view how do I get a fully qualified url such as http://localhost:3000/data/foo.bin? I tried using link_to but that gives a relative path.

c:\> rails --version Rails 2.1.1

Thanks in advance, Theo

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Theo,

I'm building an app where I keep a large number of files on the harddisk such as RAILS_ROOT/public/data/foo.bin etc..

Within my database I have a field that gives me foo.bin.

In a view how do I get a fully qualified url such as http://localhost:3000/data/foo.bin? I tried using link_to but that gives a relative path.

You can use the URL "/data/foo.bin". Rails serves files from the public directory by default. (For example, try creating data/foo.html and going to http://localhost:3000/data/foo.html