How to show images stored in the database

Actually i have came across a situation where i will have to store an
image in the database and show the same image… for this purpose i have
used LONGBLOB field in mysql and stored the image…
I have to show this image to the user from db… and i dont knwo how to
show the image in this way…
I have got answer for this in php on
http://www.weberdev.com/get_example-4062.html(php code.)
There is some function called Header in php but i dont know about
rails…
Pls help me out…
Thanks and regards
Saurabh P.
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On 13 Feb 2008, at 13:41, Saurabh P. wrote:

Actually i have came across a situation where i will have to store an
image in the database and show the same image… for this purpose i
have
used LONGBLOB field in mysql and stored the image…
I have to show this image to the user from db… and i dont knwo how
to
show the image in this way…
Use send_data. It allows you to tell the browser what mime type the
image is so that the browser knows what to do with it.
something like this should do the trick

send_data(some_chunk_of_data, :disposition => ‘inline’, :type=> ‘image/
png’, :filename => ‘foo.png’)