Creating a file and saving in public directory

Rails
1

Hello,

I’m fairly new to Ruby on Rails.

I have a model called Report and I’m trying to create a text file that
is saved in a /public/report directory.

I’ve had a look at the ruby api but I can’t seem to get this working.

The current code I have is:

#report.rb
class Report < ActiveRecord::Base

after_save :write_file

def write_file
if @file_data
File.makedirs("#{RAILS_ROOT}/report")
File.open("#{RAILS_ROOT}/report/waiting.adc", “w”) { |file|
file.write(“hello world”) }
end
end
end

#report_controller.rb

def new
@report = File.new
end

def create
if @report.save
flash[:notice]=‘report’
else
render :action=>‘new’
end
end

Thank you for your time.

2

try

  File.makedirs("#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/report")
  File.open("#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/report/waiting.adc", "w") { |

file|
file.write(“hello world”) }
end

On Nov 13, 4:26 pm, Ryan M. [email protected]

3

Hi Jeff,

I’ve changed the code to what you have suggested only it has not worked.
I can’t seem to find anywhere on Google from searching a solution to
this.

Is there a better way of writing files to a directory?

Thank you for your help.

4

With Ruby V1.87p72 on MacOS X 10.5

662 > cat junk/newbe
cat: junk/newbe: No such file or directory

663 > irb
irb(main):001:0> Dir.mkdir(“junk”)
=> 0
irb(main):002:0> Dir.chdir(“junk”)
=> 0
irb(main):003:0> f = File.new(“newbe”, “w+”)
=> #<File:newbe>
irb(main):004:0> f.write(“hello world\n”)
=> 12
irb(main):005:0> f.close
=> nil
irb(main):006:0> quit

664 > cat junk/newbe
hello world

Rick

On Nov 13, 11:26 am, Ryan M. [email protected]