Gsub error

Hi,
I am trying to display a photo on the screen which is stored as binary
data in
MS SQL2000 database.here is what i have written in controller.

def photo
@person = Person.find(params[:id])
send_data(@person.uploaded_data,
:filename=>@person.filename,
:type => @person.content_type,
:disposition => ‘inline’)

end

but when i goto http://localhost:3000/person/photo/2308
I get the following error.

private method `gsub’ called for #Array:0x47454c4

Does anyone know how do i correct this.

Could you post your stack?

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Could you post your stack?

Here s what i get in the full trace of the application.

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.5/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/sqlserver_adapter.rb:136:in
binary_to_string' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.5/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_definitions.rb:64:intype_cast’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.5/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/sqlserver_adapter.rb:83:in
type_cast' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.5/lib/active_record/base.rb:1876:inread_attribute’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.5/lib/active_record/base.rb:1852:in
method_missing' C:/Inetpub/event/app/controllers/person_controller.rb:114:inphoto’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1101:in
send' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1101:inperform_action_without_filters’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.5/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:696:in
call_filters' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.5/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:688:inperform_action_without_benchmark’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.5/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:66:in
perform_action_without_rescue' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:inmeasure’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.5/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:66:in
perform_action_without_rescue' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.5/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:83:inperform_action’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:435:in
send' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:435:inprocess_without_filters’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.5/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:684:in
process_without_session_management_support' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.5/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:114:inprocess’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:334:in
process' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.5/lib/dispatcher.rb:41:indispatch’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.5/lib/webrick_server.rb:113:in
handle_dispatch' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.5/lib/webrick_server.rb:79:inservice’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:104:in service' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:65:inrun’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:173:in start_thread' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:instart’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in start_thread' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:95:instart’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:in each' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:instart’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:23:in start' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:82:instart’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.5/lib/webrick_server.rb:63:in
dispatch' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.5/lib/commands/servers/webrick.rb:59 c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:ingem_original_require’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
require' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:inrequire’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in
new_constants_in' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:inrequire’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.5/lib/commands/server.rb:39
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
gem_original_require' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:inrequire’
script/server:3