I am asking how to turn the JPEG IO stream into an image I can pass on and display in a view.
So I have def index result = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse('http:// link_to_image.jpg') ) ... @image = ?? end index.html.erb @image = pretty picture On Jun 6, 6:37 pm, Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Kim <kim.gri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I need to pull an image from a URL (I have permission) that is a .jpg. > > result = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse('http:// > > link_to_image.jpg') ) > > > result.body => gives me encoded junk. > > No, it gives you what you asked for: a JPEG-format IO stream. > > Are you saving it, or passing it to some other process, or what? > > > so I can display the image. > > Or in other words, "display" it how? > > -- > Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroe...@gmail.com > twitter: @hassan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.