Ruby on Rails Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
> Hassan Schroeder wrote:
>> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Hemant Bhargava <lists@ruby-forum.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>>> Basically, if i open an txt file in firefox using "File > Open file"
>>>>> then file is opening perfectly. But if i try to open a txt file from a
>>>>> file link on a webpage "file:///path" it is not going anywhere?
>>
>>> By this i mean that page is neither reloading nor going to a new tab.
>>> Usually if you click on a link something happens from these two. But now
>>> its not.
>>
>> Dunno if it's a bug or a feature, but yeah, file URLs don't seem to work
>> in FF (or Safari, for that matter). But if the link is hand-crafted
>> (which is
>> what I tried), I don't see how it could be related to Rails, in any
>> case.

If this is not a feature then how come file opens when a open it with
File > Open file. I think there must be some way in rails as well to
open it. I'll be back to you guys after a bit of R & D.. :)

>
>>
>> FWIW,
>> --
>> Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroeder@gmail.com
>> twitter: @hassan
>
> Best,
> --
> Marnen Laibow-Koser
> http://www.marnen.org
> marnen@marnen.org

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