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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 30, 2009, 10:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-make-a-link-to-html-file/159002 "2009-01-30T10:01:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:**  [@newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newb)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 10:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-make-a-link-to-html-file/159002/1 "2009-01-30T10:01:02Z")
Hi …
i want to make link to html file.which i have in my rails application
folder.
below is my source genearted by html.
but when i click the link i get error =\> Firefox doesn’t know how to
open this address, because the protocol (d) isn’t associated with any
program.
click here
my actual code is\<%file\_path.each do |f|%\>
click here
\<%end%\>
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**Author:**  [@newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newb)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 10:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-make-a-link-to-html-file/159002/2 "2009-01-30T10:46:50Z")
Hi,
Do you really want to print links to local files?
Well, you are missing a file:// in you href attribute.
ciao, tom
On Jan 30, 10:01 am, Newb N. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)
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**Author:**  [@newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newb)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 11:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-make-a-link-to-html-file/159002/3 "2009-01-30T11:18:05Z")
Thomas r. Koll wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Do you really want to print links to local files?
> Well, you are missing a file:// in you href attribute.
>
> ciao, tom
>
> On Jan 30, 10:01�am, Newb N. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)
thanks for the reply.i used like below.
\”\> click here
below is a source for above code.when i click the link it doesn’t show
me any error but the file didn;t opened.waht would be the problem pls
help.
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click here