Actually i have came across a situation where i will have to store an image in the database and show the same image.. for this purpose i have used LONGBLOB field in mysql and stored the image.. I have to show this image to the user from db.. and i dont knwo how to show the image in this way.. I have got answer for this in php on http://www.weberdev.com/get_example-4062.html(php code.) There is some function called Header in php but i dont know about rails... Pls help me out.. Thanks and regards Saurabh Purnaye saurabh.purnaye@gmail.com
Actually i have came across a situation where i will have to store an image in the database and show the same image.. for this purpose i
have used LONGBLOB field in mysql and stored the image.. I have to show this image to the user from db.. and i dont knwo how
to show the image in this way..
Use send_data. It allows you to tell the browser what mime type the
image is so that the browser knows what to do with it.
something like this should do the trick
send_data(some_chunk_of_data, :disposition => 'inline', :type=> 'image/ png', :filename => 'foo.png')
