images in db

[Jenna Fox]

Make a controller with a get method to retrieve the image, then, have  
some code like this in it, supposing image_data is a string or  
something:

headers['Content-Type'] = 'image/png'
headers['Content-Length'] = image_data.length.to_s
return image_data


On 03/02/2009, at 10:58 AM, Cornelius Jaeger wrote:

> hi all
>
> just working on my first camping hack and new to ruby as well.
> i've figured some things out and uploading images into the database,  
> but i'm not sure how to get the data displayed in the browser.
> i'd like to stream it straight from the db, not copy it to the fs  
> first.
> obviously img(:src => file_data) doesn't work.
> any pointers or reading assignments would be v. welcome.
> many thanks
>
> cornelius
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