images in db

[Cornelius Jaeger]

cheers john

hm, seems strange eh, you'd think this is something that is just  
possible.
many thanks for the link, i'll work it tonight.
alternatively i'll have to copy the image to the file system after all  
and serve it from the webserver.

cheers

cornelius

On 03.02.2009, at 21:32, John Beppu wrote:

> Roland just showed you how to inline it.
>
> Here's a little article on the technique he's using:
>
> http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=Data_URIs_and_Inline_Images
>
> However, as Jenna said, this technique doesn't work in IE.  Her  
> first suggestion is probably the path of least resistance.
>
> --beppu
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Cornelius Jaeger <cjlists at visualfood.ch 
> > wrote:
> Hi Jenna, Roland
>
> Thanks for your responses.
> How can I get the image inline in the html, rather than downloading  
> it to the user?
> I'm not at all sure how to use markaby to stream the image data into  
> something the img tag will understand.
> Many Thanks for helping
>
> Cornelius
>
>
>
>
> On 03.02.2009, at 01:58, Jenna Fox wrote:
>
> 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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