images in db

[Roland Crosby]

Well, you could sorta do img(:src => file_data), using the data: URI scheme.

def data_uri(file_data, mime_type="image/png")
  "data:#{mime_type};base64,#{[file_data].pack('m*')}".strip
end

Then you could just do img(:src => data_uri(file_data)), and it should work.

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Cornelius Jaeger <cjlists at visualfood.ch> 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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