Notes posted by sshaw

Rendering After Exception In respond_to() Block

Remember, format blocks set the response’s content type. This can present problems when handling errors.

class MediaController
  rescue_from  ActionController::MissingFile do |e|
    # User's browser probably wont display this 
    # Content-Type is application/x-shockwave-flash
    render :file => File.join(Rails.public_path, '404.html'), :status => 404 
  end

  # show details or stream video
  def show
    @media = Media.find params[:id]
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html
      format.flv { send_file @media.path, :disposition => 'inline' }
    end
  end
end

For these situations you must set :content_type when calling render:

render :file => File.join(Rails.public_path, '404.html'), :status => 404, :content_type => 'text/html' 

nil Argument Raises An I18n::ArgumentError

You might want to do this:

module ActionView
 module Helpers
   module TranslationHelper
     def localize(*args)
       #Avoid I18n::ArgumentError for nil values
       I18n.localize(*args) unless args.first.nil?
     end
     # l() still points at old definition
     alias l localize
   end
 end

end

Mode Flags

RDONLY, TRUNC, etc… are defined in the File::Constants module which is include'd by IO and File.

IO.open fd, IO::RDONLY
File.open path, File::RDONLY

Though as pointed out above, they are interchangeable.

Errors Raised

See: http://apidock.com/ruby/IO/open/class#894-Errors-Raised

Errors Raised

Non IO errors (IOError) are contained in the Errno module. They are the same as those given in open(2), see:

http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/open.2.html#ERRORS

Common Errors

• Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory

• Errno::EACCES: Permission denied

• Errno::EEXIST: File exists (i.e. IO::EXCL | IO::CREAT)