Any options for serving files from outside of public?

[French Fry]

I want to be able to play audio files that are outside root. I've been
reading around and it looks like options are non-existent. Even if I set
additional public folders, the files span multiples directories (and
drives). I looked at Rack::TryStatic but it looks like I'd have to
downgrade Rack, from 2.x to 1.7. Doesn't sound like a good idea.

So I'm just throwing this out. Maybe something I'm not aware of yet.

Thanks
FF

[Jason Rogers]

The first argument to *send_file* can be an absolute or relative path. E.g.


get '/absolute' *do*
send_file *"*/absolute/path/to/pic.jpg*"*, disposition: *"*inline*"*
*end*

get '/relative' *do*
send_file *"*../../../relative/path/to/pic.jpg*"*, disposition: *"*inline
*"*
*end*


Does that help?


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Jason Rogers

Post by French Fry
I want to be able to play audio files that are outside root. I've been
reading around and it looks like options are non-existent. Even if I set
additional public folders, the files span multiples directories (and
drives). I looked at Rack::TryStatic but it looks like I'd have to
downgrade Rack, from 2.x to 1.7. Doesn't sound like a good idea.
So I'm just throwing this out. Maybe something I'm not aware of yet.
Thanks
FF
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[French Fry]

Thank you for the reply Jason! I hadn't noticed it till this morning.
Last night I played with send_file and while it "works" I ran into two
problems. The first might be fixable , that being, the send_file helper
seems to take the header information from the file, and insert it into the
html audio component type option. I did trying hard coding it into the
helper options, but a) it didn't stick , while I tried using 'audio/mp3' ,
it reverts back to 'audio/mpeg'. Still it works like that but nothing I
could do with type audio/flac. Just keeps going into octet stream and I
get a download of the file.

The second issue which is, I think, a side effect of the way send_file
works is it just creates an html page with the player as the only component
in the body. I wanted the player as a partial , perhaps as a footer or
something. I haven't figured out if that is doable or not.

Lastly, I was playing around with some javascript to preview files (onclick
links, etc) but I think it still wouldn't work with the files outside of
public.

Post by Jason Rogers
The first argument to *send_file* can be an absolute or relative path. E.g.
get '/absolute' *do*
send_file *"*/absolute/path/to/pic.jpg*"*, disposition: *"*inline*"*
*end*
get '/relative' *do*
send_file *"*../../../relative/path/to/pic.jpg*"*, disposition: *"*
inline*"*
*end*
Does that help?
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Jason Rogers

Post by French Fry
I want to be able to play audio files that are outside root. I've been
reading around and it looks like options are non-existent. Even if I set
additional public folders, the files span multiples directories (and
drives). I looked at Rack::TryStatic but it looks like I'd have to
downgrade Rack, from 2.x to 1.7. Doesn't sound like a good idea.
So I'm just throwing this out. Maybe something I'm not aware of yet.
Thanks
FF
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[French Fry]

Updating this post. I am now able to get any file type/extension into the
send file options. Now I just need to figure out how to get the delivered
inside a partial.

Post by French Fry
Thank you for the reply Jason! I hadn't noticed it till this morning.
Last night I played with send_file and while it "works" I ran into two
problems. The first might be fixable , that being, the send_file helper
seems to take the header information from the file, and insert it into the
html audio component type option. I did trying hard coding it into the
helper options, but a) it didn't stick , while I tried using 'audio/mp3' ,
it reverts back to 'audio/mpeg'. Still it works like that but nothing I
could do with type audio/flac. Just keeps going into octet stream and I
get a download of the file.
The second issue which is, I think, a side effect of the way send_file
works is it just creates an html page with the player as the only component
in the body. I wanted the player as a partial , perhaps as a footer or
something. I haven't figured out if that is doable or not.
Lastly, I was playing around with some javascript to preview files
(onclick links, etc) but I think it still wouldn't work with the files
outside of public.

Post by Jason Rogers
The first argument to *send_file* can be an absolute or relative path. E.g.
get '/absolute' *do*
send_file *"*/absolute/path/to/pic.jpg*"*, disposition: *"*inline*"*
*end*
get '/relative' *do*
send_file *"*../../../relative/path/to/pic.jpg*"*, disposition: *"*
inline*"*
*end*
Does that help?
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Jason Rogers

Post by French Fry
I want to be able to play audio files that are outside root. I've been
reading around and it looks like options are non-existent. Even if I set
additional public folders, the files span multiples directories (and
drives). I looked at Rack::TryStatic but it looks like I'd have to
downgrade Rack, from 2.x to 1.7. Doesn't sound like a good idea.
So I'm just throwing this out. Maybe something I'm not aware of yet.
Thanks
FF
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